An opinion piece in The New York Times caught my eye recently. In The Beast in Me, Maxim Loskutoff describes an encounter with a female grizzly bear while hiking in Glacier National Park, Montana. When they first see her, the bear is: “… close enough to make out the rolling power of her gait and the light gold fur on her back, and far enough away for us to feel safe.” Loskutoff and his partner admire her for a while and continue their walk. On emerging from a stand of pine, h