william fauker of mississippi wrote the short story of a bear modeled on holt collier, there are legendary bear people in the delta. but mass overculture, overhunting and harvesting, and killing bears because they are considered predators. we almost destroyed them. but t.r. wrote about the river region in great details. so i had what t.r. wrote but for my book, i needed to know what the black bear populations were back then and today. and so the different species to write b -- write about, this is what i had to check. >> when you come here, what do you do here? >> to look at documents and books. the helpful thing is out there, there is a library, they gave me two titles i didn't know about. because they collect everything. i noticed a minute ago, in this cabinet, i never saw this book by c.b. cobly on fish and wildlife. why i feel like i am walking into a treasure trove, a lot of people that write on nature focus on parks. yosomite and how to save species and the habitats. if you don't have enough wetlands you can't monitor the species. the fish and wildlife helped with the florida panther

william faulkner famously wrote the short story about a man who was a bear hunter named collier. legendary beer people down there in the delta. i do the math agriculture, over hunting, harvesting, killing bears because they're considered predators. we almost destroyed them. here's where they are debilitating them. roosevelt spent time and wrote about that river region in great detail. in louisiana. but i need to ask them what's going on there today, what were the black bear populations like back then that the biological survey had and what they're like now. this is the place i had to come to check. >> how long do you spend your? what do you do while you're here? >> look at documents, look at books. one of the most helpful things is not in this room, but out there they have a library. a minute ago they gave me two things i did not know about for perhaps future writings. they collect everything here. i noticed a minute ago behind in his cabinet, i never saw this little book by colby on the history of fish and wildlife. they have all these pamphlets and documents and photos. it's a

collier magazine. bill let him have it. he said how would you like it if i wrote dear arthur or barber or whatever you call yourself. if you ever need to pull of a pulitzer prize-winning story that is the way to do a. you are five and this is what is like and cut it out. to state brilliant little arabesque in one sentence another thing to recall is his passion for tala. and he looked for everywhere literally everywhere he would go to the big names even offered $5,000 per year to be a columnist for "national review" when it started out and we all said and less you get much richer or i get much poor then i cannot take you up on this offer. but he also grabbed it when he sought it. he hired gary wells out of the jesuit seminary. he have left the seminary and had never written any 14 anyone. bill was the first one to write him back and that was the beginning of his career. the hired at john brunner as a harvard dropout and as an him to cuba to do a story on one of castro's early prisoners, john was 19 years old. he also grabbed

the collier brothers did a research on election fraud down in florida. neither one of these gentlemen are alive today, and i don't have any sign of foul play and i don't allege such a thing. i couldn't track what brought about their demise. but i read a fair amount of their material and me did a video, a movie in investigative journalism where they went into the previous les board director of miami-dade county who took care of the voting machines. sitting in a warehouse along the swamp and walked in and said, what do you do? well, i fix these vote counting machines. and i keep them up in shape. how do you make this all work? and they got to talking about how elections got rigged and he said, here's how it is, and the video exists. he pulled some plastic gears out of a door and said, we grind one of these teeth off on this plastic gear, we put it in the vote counting machine and where we put that gear makes a difference on which side gets an extra vote for every 10 gets through. openly in the videotape. and they went up into the loft, in the attic, and fi

william faulkner famously wrote the short story, the bear about -- modeled loosely on a man named colt collier who was a bear hunter. these legendary bear people down there in the delta. we almost -- mass agriculture, overhunting, harvesting, killing bears because they were considered predators. we've almost destroyed them. but here is where they're rehabilitating them. t.r. spent time and wrote about the river region in great detail. i had what t.r. thought about it. but i needed to ask, what's going on there today? what were the black bear populations like back then that the biological survey had and what are they like today? with different species i was writing about, this is the place i had to come to check. >> so when you come in a place like this, how long do you spend here and what do you do while you're here? >> look at documents. look at books. to be honest, one of the most helpful things is not in this room, but out there. they have a library. in fact, a minute arc they gave me two titles that i didn't know about for perhaps future writing of mine, because they're collecting everythi