Song of the High Peaks 1

Cycles and Seasons 5

Bedrock: The First Story 6

The Rising of the Sun and the Running of the Deer: A Glacier Year 39

Plant-and-Animal Communities 43

Over Going-to-the-Sun Road 44

Groves and Grasslands: The Prairie Sea 46

The Forest 70

Scrub Forest 105

Tundra 109

Water Communities 114

Shooting Stars 121

Appendix 125

Pictorial Features

The Mountains of Glacier 10

The Forests of Glacier 48

The Vital Predator 78

Protective Coloration 84

Ursus arctos horribilus: The Vulnerable King 88

Bald Eagles and Kokanee Salmon: A Recent Gathering 92

A Triumph of Many Colors 96

Fire Succession: Key to Continuity 100

Illustrations by Celia Strain/Morgan-Burchette Assoc.