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Eric Collier

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Full-color oil painting by Bill Johnson. Helicopter descending toward a burning mountainside, viewed from below with man crouching over radio equipment in foreground; lookout building visible through smoke and flames in background.
Natural Disaster Survival

I Stayed on My Job as Fire Lookout Until I Was Completely Surrounded by Flames

By Rod Diederick, as told to Eric Collier

An original color painting of a firetower lookout watching the flames of a wildfire
Natural Disaster Survival

A Wildfire Broke Out Just Miles from My Lookout Tower. I Had to Choose: Stay or Evacuate?

By Rod Diedrick, as told to Eric Collier

Two hunters and a band of rams run from an avalanche
Natural Disaster Survival

My Client Was Finally in Position on Our Sheep Hunt. Then the Avalanche Struck

By Eric Collier

An illustration of a guide creeping along a rock.
Big Game Hunting

Is It a Guide’s Job to Risk His Life for a Client?

By Eric Collier

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