Description
For months at a time, he follows the bighorn herds, meets mountain lions and bears, weathers injury and storms, and beautifully observes the implausible splendor of the Rocky Mountains.
Hutto has a deep connection to Wyoming, having managed a big cattle ranch in his past. He weaves Wyoming’s history of the cowboy, mountain ecology, and the lives of the bighorn sheep into a beautiful flowing narrative. In the long run, he discovers that the lambs are dying of a form of nutritional muscular dystrophy as a result of selenium deficiency, which is caused by acid raina grim ecological disaster caused by human pollution. Here’s a new twist on a cautionary tale, and a new voice, eloquently ex-pressing the urgency that we mend our ways.