![]() Meloy dives into these issues, and while her stance is clear - the absence of John Muir’s “hoofed locusts” would be fine with her, thanks - she does not shy away from exploring varied perspectives and opinions, recognizing that we each bring individual values and biases to the thorny issues of wildlife management. ![]() The sheep’s “amiable, nosy neighbor,” Meloy named her local herd the Blue Door Band, learned their habits and foibles over four seasons, and thought deeply about what “wild” means in a world of shrinking habitat and managed megafauna.īound by genetics and memory to a particular place, bighorns are especially vulnerable to disease born by domestic sheep, to human encroachment, and to mountain lion predation. ![]() ![]() Ellen Meloy spent a year observing desert bighorns near her home in the Colorado Plateau’s canyonlands, with detours to New Mexico’s San Andres Mountains, Baja Mexico, and the southern Sierra Nevada. ![]()
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