Wildlife Cameraman

With $150 in his pocket, a Rolleiflex, a 35 millimeter camera and a 400 meter telephoto lens, 17 year old Jase Mason plans to spend the summer in the wilderness with his Airedale terrier, Buckles, and his cameras in an attempt to fulfill his dream of becoming a famous wildlife photographer. Right away, his wallet is stolen by a hitch hiker and Jase is forced to make his living by the lens sooner than he expected. Drawing sensibly on his resources he takes good pictures for local people and with his earnings, spends as much of his time in the woods as possible. He is rewarded by some excellent pictures of grizzlies, but the hitch-hiker makes his reappearance too- as a poacher on the loose whom Jase captures using his equipment in an unexpected way. With the help of Tom Rainse, they have to track down Cat Bird and deal with a huge, renegade black bear!