title: The Will of the Land--Updated Edition
author:  Peter A. Dettling 
description: ...an even-handed book that nonetheless leaves the reader shaking with rage. That anger must be focused to become effective; it begins, as Dettling points out, in our own passive hearts that stand silently by as oil exploration, housing development and transportation interests lobby local and provincial governments into complicity against the ecological integrity of the wildlife not only of Banff but of Alberta as a whole. Only in June 2010, for example, did the provincial government belatedly list Alberta's grizzly bears as threatened--a population that may already be doomed. Dettling's story is a microcosm of that blindness. This beautiful, compelling book should make you mad as hell.<b>--Doug Peacock, author of <i>Grizzly Years, Walking It Off</i> and <i>The Essential Grizzly</i></b>
zlib_text: **Dedication**
  
   _To Peter, the love of my life_
  
   **Contents**
  
    1. [ _Cover_](cover.xhtml#cover)
    2. [ _Title Page_](title_page.xhtml#title-page)
    3.  _Dedication_
    4. Chapter 1
    5. Chapter 2
    6. Chapter 3
    7. Chapter 4
    8. Chapter 5
    9. Chapter 6
    10. Chapter 7
    11. Chapter 8
    12. Chapter 9
    13. Chapter 10
    14. Chapter 11
    15. Chapter 12
    16. Chapter 13
    17. Chapter 14
    18. Chapter 15
    19. Chapter 16
    20. Chapter 17
    21. Chapter 18
    22. Chapter 19
    23. Chapter 20
    24. Chapter 21
    25. Chapter 22
    26. Chapter 23
    27. Chapter 24
    28. Chapter 25
    29. Chapter 26
    30. Chapter 27
    31. Chapter 28
    32. Chapter 29
    33. Chapter 30
    34. Chapter 31
    35.  _Acknowledgments_
    36.  _About the Author_
    37.  _Also by Terry Gamble_
    38.  _Copyright_
    39.  _About the Publisher_
  
  Chapter 1
  
   **A** nything untethered washes down this river. Old stoves, felled trees,
  derelict cows. A spring surge might bring a smorgasbord of candle crates and
  errant knickers, while au