I was living in a 144-square-foot treehouse with my family the first time I encountered a herd of elk.

Straightening the quilt on one of the cots, I glimpsed movement through a window and rushed – barefoot – to the narrow deck to see what it was: a herd of 200 elk galloping along each rise and dip of the valley below the treehouse. …

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