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Archive Home > 2005 > May > 12 > Nature: Too close for comfort

Nature: Too close for comfort


May 12, 2005

When I heard a branch snap, I stopped and knelt at the base of a tall sugar pine. On the breeze lingered a wild, musky barnyard odor. Then movement, 50 yards ahead. A cow elk, browsing from bush to bush. Now another. And a spike bull behind them, nibbling at a mushroom.

Reaching back, I....

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