In the Shadow of the Sabertooth Launch 6/13 Boulder, CO
Writer and adventurer Doug Peacock has spent the past fifty years wandering the earth’s wildest places, studying grizzly bears and advocating for the preservation of wilderness.
In his talk, Peacock will draw on his experiences with wild grizzlies, his perspective as a former Green Beret medic who served in Vietnam and consequently struggles with post traumatic stress disorder, and his friendship with the late writer Edward Abbey. Peacock was the real-life model for Edward Abbey’s George Washington Hayduke. He will discuss the essential wilderness as the landscape of home in a melting world where wilderness is healing. Doug will discuss the absolute necessity of wild lands in our modern culture. Lastly, Peacock will consider the coming climate crisis in the context of wilderness, as seen through the lens of the last great period of climate change during the Pleistocene, 13,000 years ago.
The evening will include a showing of Peacock’s grizzly bear film footage from Yellowstone and Glacier national parks, a question and answer session, and a book signing of his newest book: “In the Shadow of the Sabertooth: A Renegade Naturalist Considers Global Warming, the First Americans and the Terrible Beasts of the Pleistocene.”
He has published widely on wilderness issues ranging from grizzly bears to buffalo, from the Sonoran desert to the fjords of British Columbia, from the tigers of Siberia to the blue sheep of Nepal.