An ecosystem only works when every plant and animal is connected together in a balance, a harmony that equalizes the predators, and the prey, and creates a symmetric bond. Aldo Leopold came to understand this during a hunting trip, when he witnessed this harmony in nature.
Leopold goes on a hunting trip and sees a wolf swim across a river below them. The old wolf is met by a pack of grown pups who greet her excitedly. Leopold and his buddies start shooting the wolves, excited to kill them. Then as they watch the old wolf die, they see a fire in her eyes that makes him realize there is a balance to the mountain, and he has just disrupted it. Leopold comes to understand that a mountain needs its wolves, because without wolves to eat the deer, the deer eat everything on the mountain, leaving it bare.
This article was really sad. I was amazed to read about how the hunters shot the wolves without hesitation! To them that was a great opportunity, but to our generation, it seems inhuman. There was a lot of descriptive language, which helped me to connect. I understood what he was saying about the mountain being eaten alive. It was awful for me to think about them killing the wolves so easily.
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