Doug Peacock

[4] In 1988 the award winning documentary Peacock's War [5] was released about Doug's experiences in Vietnam and his efforts to study and protect grizzly bears.

[10] Peacock was named 2007 Guggenheim Fellow[11] and was awarded the Cultural Freedom Fellowship[12] by the Lannan Foundation in 2011 for his work on archaeology, climate change and the peopling of North America as published in his 2013 book In the Shadow of the Sabertooth: A Renegade Naturalist Considers Global Warming, the Arrival of the First Americans and the Terrible Beasts of the Pleistocene (Counterpunch/AK Press).

Doug then served two tours in the Vietnam War as a Green Beret combat medic; he was awarded the Soldier's Medal, the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry, and the Bronze Star.

In the process, he revisited Vietnam in flashbacks, remembering the cantankerous friendship with Abbey, and almost died in his journey to recover from "this terminal disease called life" in Nepal with his friends Alan Burgess and Dennis Sizemore.

Doug and Andrea Peacock's new book, The Essential Grizzly: The Mingled Fates of Men and Bears was released on May 1, 2006 (Lyons Press, ISBN 1-59228-848-0).

(Lyons Press, ISBN 1-59921-490-3) Peacock has more recently been serving as a writer for the Daily Beast, where he writes about the American wilderness as well as animal rights in their indigenous lands.