| Stakeholders who live around the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest (BDNF) are challenged with living on a shared landscape with grizzlies. Current definitions of coexistence are vague and often do not account for variance in the term’s meaning among diverse stakeholders due to differences in their individual experiences. To explore how stakeholders conceptualize coexistence, I used photovoice to allow participants to actively explore the experiences that form their visions of a desirable future coexistence. Specifically, I used photovoice to examine stakeholders’ time stories, which connect past and present experiences to ideas about what should happen in the future. Assessing time stories uncovered stakeholders’ imaginaries of coexistence, which are an individual’s moral vision of a desirable future. Through combining semi-structured interviews with photovoice, I explored how stakeholders’ experiences form their visions of a desirable future coexistence with grizzlies. Doing so allowed me to identify four imaginaries of coexistence with grizzlies around the BDNF. |