The Roadless Yaak: Reflections and Observations About One of Our Last Great Wild Places - Softcover

[A] poignant collection. . . . the most important message you will find along this journey of essays is the importance of protecting such precious land for future generations.
Outside Bozeman

This landmark collection about a pristine American valley known as the Yaak features memorable essays from some of the most distinguished writers of the New West. The Yaak Valley of northwestern Montana is where the wilderness and isolation of a million acres overwhelms the imagination, and these essays capture the exhilaration and trepidation that visitors (and residents) encounter in this astonishing place. The million-acre Yaak Valley is home to only a small human population, but untold numbers of elk, deer, grizzly bears, cougars, and other critters, big and small, roam freely here, in large part because 175,000 acres remain roadless. InThe Roadless Yaak, Rick Bass and his fellow writers make a compelling argument for why the Yaak must remain wild.

With Essays By:

Sandra Alcosser

Rick Bass

Bob Butz

Douglas H. Chadwick

Scott Daily

Alison Hawthorne Deming

David James Duncan

Amy Edmonds

Jeff Ferderer

Jim Fergus

Tom Franklin

Debra Gwartney

Sue Halpern

William Kittredge

Carolyn Kremers

Laurie John Lane-Zucker

Tim Linehan

Bob Love

Bill McKibben

Gregory McNamee

Ellen Meloy

Roy Parvin

Doug Peacock

Robert Michael Pyle

Janisse Ray

Pattiann Rogers

Lynn Sainsbury

Laura Sedler

Bob Shacochis

Annick Smith

Todd Tanner

Steve Thompson

John Wickersham

Terry Tempest Williams

Chris Wood