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Steve Rinella mentions reading this entire book while watching an avalanche slide for black bears. The book is about Chris McCandless (Alexander Supertramp) who died in a bus in Alaska. A movie was made from the book, and Eddie Vedder made a song for it.

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Tyler Freel brought this book to give to Steve. It's described as Wayne Heimer's work - he was a longtime sheep research biologist in Fairbanks and one of the original sheep management and research biologists in Alaska. The book is referenced multiple times throughout the conversation about Dall sheep management.

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Tyler mentions this as one of his favorite books of all time, and Steve agrees. Jim Reardon wrote many stories for Outdoor Life over the years. Tyler mentions having the original copy and references a two-part article Reardon wrote pre-pipeline about what would happen with wildlife development.