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OverviewNaturalist Joe Hutto's latest adventures in wildlife observation 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 become irrelevant and human needs can become 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 incredible splendor of the Rocky Mountains. Hutto has a deep connection to Wyoming, having managed a large 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. Ultimately, he discovers that the lambs are dying of a form of nutritional muscular dystrophy due to selenium deficiency, which is caused by acid rain-a grim ecological disaster caused by human pollution. Here is a new twist on a cautionary tale, and a new voice, eloquently ex-pressing the urgency that we mend our ways. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Joe HuttoPublisher: Skyhorse Publishing Imprint: Skyhorse Publishing Edition: Not for Online Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 16.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.585kg ISBN: 9781602397033ISBN 10: 1602397031 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 03 December 2009 Audience: General/trade , General , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviewsImpossible to put down an intensely lived and well-researched potpourriof ecology, ethology, geology, anthropology. Joe Hutto s life intersectswith the decline of high Rocky Mountain ecosystems and of the cowboy culture thatoccupied them a struggle for personal fulfillment documenting a tragictransformation. --Daniel Simberloff, Nancy Gore Hunger Professor of Environmental Studies, University of Tennessee; past president, American Society of Naturalists Impossible to put down-an intensely lived and well-researched potpourri of ecology, ethology, geology, anthropology. Joe Hutto's life intersects with the decline of high Rocky Mountain ecosystems and of the cowboy culture that occupied them-a struggle for personal fulfillment documenting a tragic transformation. -- Daniel Simberloff, Nancy Gore Hunger Professor of Environmental Studies, University of Tennessee; pa Author InformationJoe Hutto: Joe Hutto is a biologist, Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, and keen observer of animal behavior. His first book, Illumination in the Flatwoods, was a critically acclaimed story of his magical experience raising a brood of wild turkeys, which became an award-winning documentary called My Life as a Turkey. He lives in Lander, Wyoming. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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