I talked with Ed Stevenson about four years ago for about four hours. He had just moved back to his place on Sheep River after getting healed up from his second severe bear mauling. The first time a Brown Bear nearly drowned him in the river while his client was stuck frozen. The second time he was 84 years old and was walking his dog who went ahead barking and brought back the bear on its heels. He ended up engaging the bear at point blank range. Fred Rungee and Jack Lee are the only other people that I have talked to that have been mauled by more than one grizzly in their time in the back country. I think one of the most interesting elements of our conversation was that there were so much alders and brush in his Sheep River area that he didn't have resident pressure on the Dall Sheep in his area. The country was so full of alders and brush that resident hunters would go elsewhere. This deep "puckerbrush" really allows quick lever guns to do their business.
