On a quiet hike in Clearwater National Forest, our Idaho Forests Campaign Manager John McCarthy stumbles upon some large animals whose kin have been known to charge a human or two.

Read John’s account of his careful photographic tiptoe through moose territory:

Two moose up Goose Creek
And a photographer without a paddle

By John McCarthy

Walking up Goose Creek trail near the Idaho-Montana border on a sunny July morning, the sound of crunching brush told me something very large was beating the bushes — less than 50 feet above me.