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Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac

As perilous ice quickly surrounded the ship, Sides recounts, the team had to “shed its organizing ideas, in all their unfounded romance, and to replace them with a reckoning of the way the Arctic truly is.”a

In the rest of America, hunting was dying. Rates of participation had been declining for decades—only 6 percent of Americans still hunted. But in the Northern Rockies, it remained integral to the culture—Montana had the highest number of hunters per capita, and Wyoming wasn’t far behind. Women hunted, kids hunted, even wildlife biologists hunted. F

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Their fur rippled over sinewy shoulders and haunches like the sky molded to the landscape. Their spots were the darkness of clouds moving between moonlight and starshine.

doggedness

Bozeman, a bastion of progressive politics and environmentalism,