Julius Strauss
Julius Strauss is a wilderness guide, activist, journalist and writer. He began his career as a British print journalist who spent many years working in Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq and other war zones. In 2002, he was posted to Moscow as the Daily Telegraph's bureau chief, from where he covered Putin's Russia and various Chechen crises. He also continued to report from Iraq.
In 2005, Strauss relocated to Canada where he spent six months working for The Globe and Mail, covering mostly Indian affairs on northern reserves. In 2007, he was appointed to the Atwood Chair in the journalism department at the University of Alaska Anchorage.
Since early 2006, Strauss has been running Grizzly Bear Ranch in British Columbia. He also still takes on various freelance assignments. In 2011 Strauss served as a political officer working with the US Marines in southern Afghanistan for several months. In 2017 he returned to Russia, Ukraine and Georgia with Thomas Dworzak of Magnum Photos to retrace the 1947 steps of John Steinbeck and Robert Capa.
Between 2015 and 2017 Strauss spearheaded a political campaign to ban grizzly bear hunting in British Columbia as the Chairperson of the Political Committee of the Commercial Bear Viewing Association, which culminated in a full ban announced by the BC government in Dec 2017. He has been featured on The Grizzly Truth, Trophy and Ben Fogle's New Lives in the Wild.
Strauss continues to run Grizzly Bear Ranch taking a small number of guests out each year to view wild grizzly bears and other megafauna in their natural habitat.
