Forest Research

This program features a bonus chapter of the author's preliminary research interviews with the sisters featured in the book. "An uplifting tale, suffused with a karmic righteousness that is, at times, exhilarating." —Wall Street Journal Rebecca Frankel's Into the Forest is a gripping story of...

The wilderness is silent for a reason. For generations, experienced outdoorsmen have operated under a comforting assumption: they know exactly what lives in the deep timber. They know the sounds, the tracks, and the behavior of every predator in North America. But what happens when that knowledge fails? What happens when a seasoned bowman is stalked by a massive, bipedal shadow, or a competitive tracking dog handler is forced out of the flooded swamps by something intelligent, aggressive, and terrifyingly real? BIGFOOT: Hunters in the Woods strips away the rumors and delivers 20 harrowing, ...

Something is watching from the tree line. Deep in the isolated stretches of the wilderness, there are places where the trails end and the dense, old-growth timber begins. In these remote shadows, hikers, hunters, and isolated residents have come face-to-face with an apex predator that defies conventional science. From the brutal, night-long bombardment of a remote mining cabin to a terrified community forced to abandon their homes along a rugged coastline, this collection unearths chilling, documented accounts of creatures that walk upright, hunt in the dark, and leave nothing behind but ...

Safety is an agreement between you and the wilderness. And the wilderness did not sign. You lock the door. You pull the curtain. You tell yourself the roof is strong and the forest outside is just forest. But every campfire story begins with the same lie: you are safe in here. This collection details documented, firsthand reports of ordinary people who woke up to heavy bipedal footsteps, shattered doors, and deafening screams in the dead of night. Stripped of myth and grounded in terrifying reality, these accounts explore what happens when the boundary between human shelter and the unknown ...

Emmy‑nominated filmmaker and University of Cambridge Environmental Psychologist Lindsay Branham invites readers into an embodied, reciprocal relationship with trees to heal our severed connections to ourselves and the earth, returning home to the living world. In the midst of the California...

A remote research compound. A cutting-edge electric perimeter. And something in the forest that understands exactly how it works. When a team of wealthy hunters and technicians installs a state-of-the-art electrified barrier around a suspected cryptid territory, they believe they’ve finally created the perfect trap. With drones in the air, generators humming, and miles of high-voltage fencing sealing the forest, nothing should be able to get in—or out. But the storm that rolls over the mountains changes everything. Power surges ripple through the fence. Cameras fail. Generators ...

Nora Hess built her life at the Pine Break research station, tracking a newly reintroduced wolf pack across the isolated mountain timber. She expected nothing more than quiet seasonal surveys and cold mountain air. Instead, a pair of missing surveyors leaves behind a gutted camp and massive, bipedal tracks pressed deep into the soil. The crushed branches and cached carcasses tell a story that no known predator could write. As the shadow of an apex predator closes in on the station, the forest goes completely silent. The trap is set, and the woods are running red.

Tracking wolves in the winter backcountry was risky. Getting snowed in with the silent mountain ranger assigned to keep me alive? That was dangerous. I came to Harrow Peak for one reason. The wolves. Three months of fieldwork. One winter range study. No distractions. Then the pack moved above the treeline. And Colt Wren had to come with me. He’s a Forest Service ranger with broad shoulders, brown eyes, and the kind of quiet that makes every word count. He knows every ridge on this mountain. Every drainage. Every storm. And he looks at my curves like staying professional is starting to ...

What happens when the campfire tales are real? Deep in the blank spaces on the map, in the vast, silent wilderness, a creature of immense power and unknown intelligence stalks the shadows. For generations, whispers of a giant, hair-covered, bipedal predator have been dismissed as folklore. But for some, the legend has become a brutal, terrifying reality. This chilling collection brings together the most harrowing and credible encounters on record. From a 19th-century trapper's night of unrelenting terror in the Bitterroot Mountains to a modern family's home besieged by an unseen force in ...

The woods are silent for a reason. Have you ever felt like you were being watched? This gripping collection of true witness reports drags you deep into the heart of Bigfoot territory, where ordinary people have come face-to-face with the impossible. These aren't just campfire tales; they are harrowing, firsthand accounts from seasoned hikers, hunters, and even law enforcement who stared into the eyes of an unknown primate. From the humid swamps of the South to the dense forests of the Pacific Northwest, each chapter details a chilling and unexplained confrontation with a mysterious creature...

Discover how to camp beyond crowded campgrounds with The Beginner’s Guide to Dispersed Camping and Boondocking, a practical introduction to finding freedom, flexibility, and low-cost adventure on the open road. This beginner-friendly guide explains how dispersed camping and boondocking work, where people can legally camp, how to find suitable sites, and what it takes to stay safe and comfortable without hookups. Inside, you’ll find clear, grounded guidance on public lands, campsite research, basic gear, water, waste, power, road conditions, weather, and common beginner mistakes. Whether...

Unexpected Job Offer: When a limousine showed up at my door one afternoon and the driver invited me to get inside, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and mystery. Now, he's whisked me off to begin the adventure of a lifetime, working with shape shifters in a hidden preserve. For an animal behaviorist, it was a dream come true, but what I didn't expect was the intense attraction I felt for my boss. Bruin leaves my heart palpitating and my knees weak. Every time I hear his voice I long to throw myself into his waiting arms. There's just one hitch, though. I've never even seen his ...

The Learning Rainforest is renowned educator Tom Sherrington's attempt to capture various different elements of our understanding and experience of teaching. It is a celebration of great teaching - the joy of it and the intellectual and personal rewards that teaching brings...

Cash Cassidy goes against her husband’s wishes and departs Wales for South America to seek El Dorado, the famed lost city of gold. When she’s pursued by authorities, robbed of a critical item, and abandoned by the smugglers who were her guides, it’s up to Cash to find her way to safety to El Dorado. Meanwhile, Cash’s husband is desperate to find her—he’ll do anything to save her from a terrible fate. Cash travels undercover on the odyssey of a lifetime through jungles, across mountains, and even across borders. After she meets a man who reveals more clues about the whereabouts ...

For anthropologists, historians, and readers of global folklore, how does a community negotiate peace with an aggressive apex predator? This rigorous study investigates how shared vulnerability to catastrophic environmental threats dissolved rigid theological boundaries in the Bengal delta, establishing an indigenous framework where faith and ecological survival merge. The dense mangrove channels of the Bengal delta present one of the most volatile landscapes on Earth. Twice daily, massive tidal fluctuations erase physical pathways, leaving human workers isolated in a hypersaline wilderness...

This newly launched report argues that development policies based on new insights into how people actually think and make decisions will help governments and civil society more readily tackle such challenges as increasing productivity, breaking the cycle of poverty from one generation to the next, and acting on climate change.

A classic collection of the New Yorker’s most urgent and groundbreaking reporting from the front lines of the climate emergency In 1989, just one year after climatologist James Hansen first came before a Senate committee and testified that the earth was now warmer than it had ever been in...

Sharks are ruthlessly efficient predators, the apex of 450 million years of evolution. They are older than trees, have survived five extinction events and are essential to maintaining balanced ocean ecosystems, but how much do we really know about their lives? The first book to reveal the hidden...