"I now suspect that just as a deer herd Lives in mortal fear of its wolves, so does a mountain live in mortal fear of its deer." That's a great quote, right there.
cushychicken 309 days ago [-]
I agree - that’s a standout even with a lot of beautiful prose in that piece.
Litost 309 days ago [-]
Yes, as you both mention, great prose and great insight.
One of my favourite pieces of nature writing as it succinctly cuts through what seems to be the modern disease of problem creation masquerading as problem solving so elequoently and hard hitting. Obviously because we so often seem to fail at taking the long term and/or ecological and/or interconnected system view.
Farmers in South Dakota were so poor they couldn't afford to trap/stop the wolf, so they enlisted the federal government to do it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Custer_Wolf
egypturnash 309 days ago [-]
"The price on his head was $500". In 1921. Inflation estimators say this is about $8800 now.
tetris11 309 days ago [-]
"the wolf took to fallen timber and so could not be tracked"
Do fallen trees give off a funky scent that masks a wolfs?
e40 309 days ago [-]
I take that to mean they walk on the fallen trees so they leave no tracks on the ground.
tetris11 309 days ago [-]
of course! thank you
joeevans1000 309 days ago [-]
So sad.
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whilst reading Aldo Leopold famous short piece from A Sand County Almanac, Thinking Like a Mountain:
https://ia600707.us.archive.org/6/items/ThinkingLikeAMountai...
One of my favourite pieces of nature writing as it succinctly cuts through what seems to be the modern disease of problem creation masquerading as problem solving so elequoently and hard hitting. Obviously because we so often seem to fail at taking the long term and/or ecological and/or interconnected system view.
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/582/when-the-beasts-come-ma...
Do fallen trees give off a funky scent that masks a wolfs?