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Rick Bass is the author of eighteen books of fiction and nonfiction, including the novel Where The Sea Used To Be, as well as the editor of the anthology The Roadless Yaak. Bass lives with his family in northwest Montana's million-acre Yaak Valley, where there is still not a single acre of designated wilderness. In October 2003, Rick Bass talked with Brian O'Grady and Rob Sumner at the home of the writer John Keeble, a ranch located southwest of Spokane, Washington. During the conversation they sat on the rear porch, still under construction, and enjoyed a meal of freshly slaughtered pork as the sun settled into the horizon beyond the hills of pine.