"Rural Americans greatly value animals (wild and domestic) for what they provide, and dislike them for what they take or harm."
-- Julia Corbett, "Out of the Woods: Seeing Nature in the Everyday."
The Prairie has been unusually wild in the past week. A full-grown doe feeds in the middle of the sedge field in broad daylight. Her red hide shines in the sunlight. She ambles and nibbles, raising her head now and then as she stares with doe eyes. I move a little closer, not wanting to scare her o
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