Caribou Rising: Defending the Porcupine Herd, Gwich-‘in Culture, and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

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The eloquent voice of Rick Bass has been raised often in celebration and defense of America’s surviving wilderness and the big wild animals that live there| in acclaimed books such as Wild to the Heart| The Ninemile Wolves| and The Lost Grizzlies. Now| in Caribou Rising| he journeys from his beloved Yaak Valley in Montana to Alaska| to witness firsthand one of the sole remaining landscapes on Earth where the wild is entirely untrammeled – America’s Serengeti| the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. It is a place where great caribou herds gather| calve| and migrate as they did in the Pleistocene| and where the ancient bond between animals and human hunters still informs daily life. Bass’s avid desire to meet this landscape and its native people| the Gwich-‘in| had several sources. A hunter himself since his Mississippi childhood| he now pursues game with a primal passion coupled with an environmentalist’s conscience| providing nearly all the meat his family consumes.