Rick Bass, a Texas native, lived in Arkansas and Mississippi before moving to northwest Montana’s Yaak Valley. A former petroleum geologist and wildlife biologist, and a leading force behind climate aid, he is the author of more than thirty books, including the short story collections The Watch and For a Little While; the memoir Colter: The True Story of the Best Dog I Ever Had; and the novel All the Land to Hold Us. An active environmentalist, Bass is a member of the Yaak Valley Forest Council, working to protect as wilderness the last roadless lands in the Yaak Valley.

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Many of Rick Bass’s stories are reminders of the consequences of territorial incursions of one species upon another. Here man in one of his most animal states is absurdly at the mercy of a beast making free with a human necessity just out of human reach. The recording is of a portion of a longer story that Rick excerpted for the Narrative Night Seattle reading in 2006.

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