Bear in the Back Seat I: Adventures of a Wildlife Ranger in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Wall Street Journal and Audible Best Seller! This is the first volume in a series of true stories from “[a]n extraordinary landscape populated with befuddled bears, hormonally-crazed elk, homicidal wi…

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