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

need to have room for hemingway roi team in the old trap plain style but also make room for william faulkner who will do anything but that. but it is hard today to find anybody who will follow in faulkner's footsteps for better and worse i suppose but i do not like us to be limited as writer so when some of my sentences get a better nablus, it is the kind of thing that it is different and maybe it will not hurt me if i'd be back but there are reviewers that say oh my god. there he goes again. somebody quoted two sentences which i that were pretty good sentences but it is an example of what the make of this and what we do with day author writes a sentence like that? with perry earth they came to the forefront if you are one of the 18 people in america that read it. how do i say this? i can look at my notes. i should have put on the dust jacket -- jacket a little phrase you have seen it on the instruction manuals with some assembly required. should happen there because to make perry earthwork but we have to produce a pay and do some assembling as a reader yourself. but i will not put perry ear

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