The Last Grizzly of Paradise Valley
Thursday September 1 at 8 pm on CBC-TV & Thursday September 8 at 10 pm ET/PT on CBC News Network
For 25 years Canadian wildlife filmmaker Jeff Turner had made a career out of filming grizzly bears, but he has never even seen one in his home mountains – the North Cascade Mountains of Southwestern Canada. These rugged mountains are not a National Park or a protected area. It is forested land, most of which continues to be logged. These changes threaten the future of wild animals like the grizzlies, which have almost disappeared from the Cascades.
In this film Jeff Turner returns to his roots and embarks on a beautiful and lyrical exploration of the wildlife around his home in the Cascade Mountains of Southwestern British Columbia. His goal is to find and film one of the handful of grizzly bears still left in these mountains. In his year long quest he encounters many different animals from his childhood including black bears, ospreys, coyotes and mule deer. During the year he begins to piece together the changes that have been brought to this mountainous landscape and the impacts that this has had on the wildlife living there. He explores the relationship between humans and wildlife in this working landscape – an area where timber companies harvest the forest and ranchers raise cattle, where tourists visit and play on the lakes and rivers, and hunters roam the forests.
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