Excerpt from Superintendent's Monthly Report: December 1953 Chief Park Naturalist Condon investigated two bear hiberna tion dens; the one on the gibbon.river was unoccupied but the one near Gem Pool in the Upper Geyser Basin contained a bear which was very much awake. After crawling part way into the den and shining a flashlight in the back portions of the den, the bear sat up in its nest and swayed back and forth growling and upon Condon's attempting to move a little closer, the bear growled ferociously and.began to move forward with the result that Condon retreated from.the den. Attempts to get the bear to come out of the den so that photographs could be made were to no avail. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.