The construction of the wildlife bridge over the Jackson-Pinedale highway was a collaborative effort, with many people coming together to safeguard the path of the pronghorn. But a big part of that effort came from Joe Riis, when he decided to buy film instead of food, and when he ended each day sleeping in the back of his truck on a foam pad atop his life-sized cutout of a pronghorn, and when he fell asleep thinking about how to reposition his camera traps to capture the first close-up photographs of his totem animal. The word obsession gets a bad rap from its association with mental health,
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