Leopold
explores the importance of the biological food
chain and the cycle of life, by using the example of deer and wolves (or
any sort of animal population) on a mountain. The
cause and effect of predators reveals the importance of the presence of the
wolves within the ecosystem of the mountain,
where their prey the deer are overpopulated. This story almost parallels the
conditions of humans and nature in our world
today.
By killing off the mass population of wolves on the mountain, the hunters assume that it will only mean more deer to hunt rather than thinking of the effects it would have on the entire ecosystem. In short, the more deer there are on the mountain, the less vegetation there will be.
Basically the deer are destroying the mountain, much like humans are destroying the world they exist in by overpopulating the land.
The mountain symbolizes and thus stands for?
