Jun 18, 2019
10 min read
What the Deer Are Telling Us
A lesson in home improvement
By Christopher Ketcham
In 1909, a United States Forest Service officer named Aldo Leopold shot a mother wolf from a perch of rimrock in the Apache National Forest in Arizona. It was a revelatory moment in the life of the young naturalist. “In those days we never heard of passing up a chance to kill a wolf,” Leopold wrote in an essay called…
