Twelve-year-old Josh Landis has a chance to use some of the knowledge he has gained since moving to the High Sierras with his mother and stepfather, a park ranger, when he helps look for the person who has been setting rusty old traps and wounding animals.
While on a climbing trip with his stepfather, Josh Landis decides that he must try to rescue two young eagles from their almost inaccessible mountaintop eyrie.
When he moves from Washington, D.C., to California's High Sierra country where his new stepfather is a park ranger, twelve-year-old Josh becomes involved in the search for a bear that has mauled several people.
After moving with his mother and stepfather to the High Sierra country, twelve-year-old Josh and his new friend Ashley get caught up in the hunt for a wiley old cougar.
