Publisher's Synopsis
Tish, the little black bear, is worried. Her Mama says that the summer's hot, dry winds can cause a forest fire if people who are camping around Lake Tahoe are careless. So, to help Tish get past her worries, Mama shows Tish how to properly extinguish a camp fire. This is the second book in the Tahoe Tish series.
Visitors to Lake Tahoe may not know much about the black bears inhabiting the area. The Tahoe Tish stories are set during a black bear cub's first year. From emerging from the den with her Mama for the first time in the spring, through fattening up on salmon prior to winter hibernation, Tish learns how to survive the human-caused perils brought by the people who visit Lake Tahoe.
The Tahoe Tish stories take place during a black bear cub's first year living and learning in the Lake Tahoe forest.
From emerging from the den with her Mama in the spring, through returning to the den in winter for hibernation, Tish learns how to find food and survive the human-caused perils brought by the visitors to Lake Tahoe.
As a Reno, Nevada resident, I have learned to share the Lake Tahoe environment with the bears who are indigenous to our region. The purpose of writing these books is to introduce young readers to what it's like to be black bear growing up in a wild area visited by thousands of people.
Some of the actions the bears undertake are exaggerated and do not happen in the wild (like using an aspen tree limb to pull trout out of a shallow stream or carrying a pot of water to douse smoking coals in a forgotten camp fire.) But who knows? Perhaps these behaviors have just not yet been documented!
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