<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>
December 14, 2016
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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.