The Light In High Places: A Naturalist Looks at Wyoming Wilderness–Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep, Cowboys, and Other Rare Species

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Naturalist Joe Hutto’s recent adventures in natural world statement take him to Wyoming’s Wind River Mountains. Hutto is living in a tent at 12,000 feet, where blizzards occur in July and where human wants transform beside the point and human needs can transform a matter of life and death—to study the Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep. The population of these rare alpine sheep is in decline. The lambs are dying in unprecedented numbers. Hutto’s job is to find out why.

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 rain—a 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.

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