Thanks for sharing the quote. Funny that this was written by a professor of the University of Wisconsin and dealt pretty directly with the killing of wolves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_like_a_mountain is an interesting read.
"Since then I have lived to see state after state extirpate its wolves. I have watched the face of many a newly wolfless mountain [...]. The cowman who cleans his range of wolves does not realize that he is taking over the wolf’s job of trimming the herd to fit the change. He has not learned to think like a mountain. Hence we have dustbowls, and rivers washing the future into the sea."
This was written in 1949. So many decades have passed and yet here we are, struggling with what should be such a straightforward problem.
"Since then I have lived to see state after state extirpate its wolves. I have watched the face of many a newly wolfless mountain [...]. The cowman who cleans his range of wolves does not realize that he is taking over the wolf’s job of trimming the herd to fit the change. He has not learned to think like a mountain. Hence we have dustbowls, and rivers washing the future into the sea."
This was written in 1949. So many decades have passed and yet here we are, struggling with what should be such a straightforward problem.