Sand County Almanac Essay 1: Think Like a Mountain

After reading Think Like a Mountain, I got a new perspective on things that go around me. The idea that the echo of one wolf howl can mean different to so many different things kind of excites me. I never really thought about how a deer or pine could perceive the echoes. But then as I read along and figured out where this story was going, I did get a bit uncomfortable. I am not a fan of the idea that if something were to happen to the wolves, then the mountains could be effected. The wolves are to keep the deer in proper numbers. If the wolves were to die out (humans hunting them), then the numbers of the deer would grow and they would be over-abundant leading to more plants being eaten and eventually enough would be eaten that the mountain, per se, could not keep with with the deer population and the deer would die off of starvation. I like the idea of "thinking like a mountain". To me it means sitting back and looking at the things that surround you and see how everything is connected. The mountain stands tall and oversees everything that goes on beneath it. Where  I am from there is a lot of Canadian Geese and even though they poop everywhere and their screeching can be annoying, they are protected and can not be hunted. If they were to die off, the coyote population could die off because a source of their food is gone.