LINDA MASTERSON
Foreword by Tom Beck

Linda Masterson has been helping people learn to peacefully coexist with bears since she joined the Colorado Division of Wildlife's Bear Aware Team in 2001. Her award-winning work has appeared in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, Animal Kingdom, Ranger Rick, and many others. After a couple of decades as a creative director at Chicago advertising agencies, she moved to Colorado, and quickly learned that some of her most interesting new neighbors were big and furry. She's an experienced outdoorswoman, and has hiked in more than a hundred national parks and forests in the U.S. and Canada. Linda is a partner in Phillips Group, a marketing and communications firm, and lives in bear country west of Fort Collins with her husband and Bear Aware partner Cory Phillips. She can be reached by email at LiveWithBears@aol.com.

Bear biologist Tom Beck is an internationally recognized, highly respected expert; U.S.A. Today refers to him as "One of America's leading authorities on black bears." In his twenty-five years with the Colorado Division of Wildlife, Beck authored many scientific publications and statewide management plans, and conducted widely cited field research studies that advanced our understanding of bears. He's an avid outdoorsman, river runner, hiker, camper, fisherman and hunter, and has recently taken up organic farming. He served as both scientific and real-world advisor on Living with Bears.