Joe Hutto
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Hutto is living in a tent at twelve thousand feet, where blizzards occur in July and where human wants become irrelevant and human needs can become a matter of life and death—to study the Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep. The population of these rare alpine sheep is in decline. The lambs are dying in unprecedented numbers. Hutto's job is to find out why.
For months at a time, he follows the bighorn herds, meets mountain lions and bears,
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2014
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Touching the Wild is the enchanting story about one man who has lived with a herd of mule deer in the Wind River mountains of Wyoming for almost seven years. Why, you may ask, would a person choose to do such a thing? His response: "how could you not?" For Joe Hutto, close proximity to wild things is irresistible. In "Illumination in the Flatwoods" he unveiled the secret lives of the wild turkey to great critical acclaim. In "Touching the Wild" he...