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An older cub traveling with her mom along the Chignik River on the Alaska Peninsula in September
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. Henry Thoreau, Walden
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- Jack & Barbra Donachy, Cordova, Alaska