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Naturalist 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.

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Title The Light in High Places: A Naturalist Looks at Wyoming Wilderness, Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep, Cowboys, and Other Rare Species
Author Joe Hutto
Binding Hardback
Edition number 18th
Edition 18
Pages 256
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Skyhorse Publishing, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Publication date 2009-11
Illustrated Yes
ISBN 9781602397033 / 1602397031
Weight 1.29 lbs (0.59 kg)
Dimensions 9 x 6 x 6.4 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 16.26 cm)
Category Animals
Library of Congress subjects Natural history - Wyoming, Bighorn sheep - Diseases
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2009022946
Dewey Decimal Code 508.787

About the author

Joe 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.

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