Stories from Afield: Adventures with Wild Things in Wild Places

Bruce L. Smith’s 30-year career as a wildlife manager and scientist brought him experiences with wildlife and wilderness that are the stuff of great storytelling. The stories in Smith’s new collection tell the tales of nearly walking off a cliff while packing out an elk during a snowstorm, finally learning respect for lightning by being engulfed in an electrical charge on a high ridge, and surviving a helicopter crash only to realize he was stuck high on a mountain. Smith earned undergraduate and master’s degrees in wildlife biology at UM.