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<p>(From left) Ecologist, Dr. Michael Proctor, bat expert Cori Lausen, author Doug Chadwick, and Gobi Bear Project leader, Harry Reynolds, make plans inside a ger, or yurt, built into a hillside for extra protection from the elements. Photo: Joe Riis</p>

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Whitefish author, biologist tracks Mongolian bears
December 14, 2016 7:45 p.m.

Whitefish author, biologist tracks Mongolian bears

For the better part of the last five years, Doug Chadwick’s mornings began with the soft glow of the sun rising over the hard, tan earth of the Gobi Desert. While his Mongolian colleagues slept, Chadwick would hike the hills and mountains alone before returning to camp for a breakfast of noodle soup with dried camel meat.