The Beardude Story: Data vs Dogma (Inscribed copy) by Piche, Allen W - 2015

A tight, clean, and unmarked copy, other than the author's inscription on the end page!- "Could a tale about a marijuana grow op guarded by more than a dozen black bears get any weirder? Yes. It was a crime story that all but wrote itself. In 2010, police investigating an outdoor marijuana operation in British Columbia's southern Interior uncovered more than just pot plants. As the officers worked to dismantle the grow op, bears sauntered out of the woods, first six, then another four, and by final count as many as two dozen. When police searched the nearby house of an eccentric recluse, they found a "frantic" Vietnamese pot-bellied pig and a "laid back" raccoon." -Bob Keating, CBC reporter for the southern Interior of British Columbia in MACLEAN'S Magazine, January 28, 2013. "This book of yours is amazing! You have done extremely well in using all the aspects of what is already a legend to tell a compelling story about bears, probably the best I have ever read because of your steadfastness in making… Read More