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DOUG PEACOCK grew up roaming the forests and
swamps of Michigan, fishing for trout, exploring the
encampments of ancient people along the post-glacial
beaches of the Great Lakes. He attended the University
of Michigan. After two tours as a Special Forces medic in
the Central Highlands of Vietnam (for which he received
the Soldier's Medal, the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry,
and the Bronze Star), Peacock was repatriated to the
Rocky Mountains, the wild deserts and tundras of North
America. It was there he met author Edward Abbey, who used Peacock
to mold his iconic character, George Washington Hayduke.
After the war, Doug crawled back into mountains and found
solitude in wilderness to be exactly what he needed to confront the
demons of Vietnam.
His books include Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilder-
ness, Walking It Off: A Veteran's Chronicle of War and Wilderness, and e
Essential Grizzly: e Mingled Fates of Men and Bears, which was co-
written with Andrea Peacock. He is currently working on a screenplay
called "e Monkeywrench Gang."
Peacock was named a 2007 Guggenheim Fellow
and a Lannan Fellow in 2011 for his work about ar-
cheology, climate change, and the peopling of North
America, In the Shadow of the Sabertooth: A Renegade
Naturalist Considers Global Warming, the First Ameri-
cans and the Terrible Beasts of the Pleistocene. Doug
was the subject of a feature film about grizzlies and
Vietnam, Peacock's War, which premiered on PBS's
Nature. Doug co-founded the Wildlife Damage
Review, Vital Ground and Round River Conservation
Studies, which works with indigenous people and
governments to develop region-wide conservation
strategies.
Peacock lives in Emigrant, Montana, and spends
considerable time in the Sonoran Desert. Married to
Andrea Peacock, he has two children.
See dougpeacock.net.
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