	After Punke relocated with his wife Traci and their two children to Missoula, Montana, where he worked part-time as a policy consultant and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Montana, he finished two screenplays as well as two non-fiction books, one about the fight to save the Buffalo – "Last Stand" (2007) – and the other about a mining disaster that occurred in North Butte, Montana – "Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917" (2013).