Interestingly enough, before this class started I hadn’t paid too much attention to our eco system and the true harm that we are doing with all the developments, the killing, the pesticides, and the advancements individuals want or think they need. I do quite a bit of reading for my classes, in the researching I’m doing for them and even for my job in a thoughtful and necessary way. I enjoy reading suspense romance novels as something that doesn’t require too much thought as a way to relax. A book I started and finished this weekend, The Final Mission by Rachel Lee is just one of these books I started for enjoyment. I was surprised, mainly because I’ve never really noticed if a book talked about the eco system as this book did. Or maybe because I'm in this class I'm already becoming more aware.
The setting for this book was a ranch, the surrounding land and mountains. This rancher had large amounts of land; however, not all of it was fenced due to what was called the migration corridor. This was for the seasonal migration of elk and deer for them to have the best grazing and to keep nature flowing. Again, I was surprised because it had some areas concerning the wolves from the Yellowstone Nation Park. A quote, “Wolves may have adopted people and not the other way around.” Some thought as to having large predators so near a ranch setting. The book had another part in which this rancher didn’t want to keep wolves away because they are part of the ecology. Some of the plants were almost gone due the grazing of deer and elk and because the wolves were brought in the plants were coming back.
“Restoring the apex predator has been beneficial overall for ecology.” I was interested in this statement in this book because just in the little time I’ve been in the class I have come to the same conclusion.
We need to learn to make compromises in our time, such as the wolf, to allow our eco system to continue to flourish for the generations to come. By respecting and caring for nature, nature will care for all of us and hopefully when we are gone we will only leave a small footprint.
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