Episode 14: Grizzlies on Trial
Martin v. United States
In 1972, a grizzly bear killed twenty-five year old Harry Walker in Yellowstone National Park. His family thought it was a tragic, random death. But the Walkers soon learned that Harry's death was part of a larger conversation about how to manage bears in national parks. Could suing the National Park Service for Harry's death change policies and save lives -- both human and bear?
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Associated Press, “Grizzly Suit Opens,” January 13, 1975, page 2 of Havre Daily News, Havre, Montana.
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Associated Press, “Grizzly bear suit recesses,” January 21, 1975, page 3 of The Billings Gazette, Billings, Montana.
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Eddie Burkhalter, “Man vs. nature: More than 40 years after a Calhoun County man was killed by a grizzly bear in Yellowstone, a new book helps his family find closure,” The Anniston Star, October 9, 2016.
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Terrie Claflin, “Retired Ranger Anderson reminisces on the ‘good life’--then and now,” Medford Mail Tribune, Medford, Oregon, reprinted in Courier: The National Park Service Newsletter, June 1984, page 19.
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Congressional Research Service, “The Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA): A Legal Overview,” updated April 17, 2023.
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Tom Gordon, “Grizzly hearing continued,” The Anniston Star, January 19, 1975, page 6.
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Tom Gordon, “Hearing near end in Walker case,” The Anniston Star, February 24, 1975, page 1-2.
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Tom Hough, “Headin’ Out,” Casper Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyoming, March 2, 1975, page 22.
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Douglas Martin, “Stephen Zetterberg, Nixon Rival, Dies at 92,” The New York Times, February 2, 2009.
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Martin v. United States, 392 F. Supp. 243 (C.D. Cal. 1975).
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Mary Meagher, “Passages–Glen F. Cole,” Yellowstone Science, Vol. 12, No. 4 (Fall 2004), page 4.
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Jerry Mitchell, “Review: Engineering Eden,” The George Wright Forum, Vol. 34, No. 2 (2017), page 120-122.
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National Park Service, “Staying Safe Around Bears.”
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“Natural History: Grizzly Bears,” Center for Biological History,
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Charissa Reid, interview with Glen Cole, Yellowstone Science, Vol. 8, No. 2 (Spring 2000), page 13-18.
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Mike Stamler, “Grizzly’s attack may get farm, too,” The Anniston Star, August 7, 1977, page 1, 11A.
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Jordan Fisher Smith, Engineering Eden: The True Story of a Violent Death, A Trial, and the Fight Over Controlling Nature (New York: Crown, 2016).
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“Yellowstone fighting grizzly lawsuit,” Jackson Hole News, January 16, 1975, pg 1.
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“Yellowstone loses grizzly case,” Jackson Hole News, February 27, 1975, page 1.