Back when Ken Tinley arrived on the scene, most of the land was eye-high scrub. The animals were scarce, and if you did see them, they were trying to get away from you, conditioned by years of hunting to escape the death that humans represented. A landscape, like a person or a psyche, learns to defend itself. With hundreds of cattle on the land, the grass had been overgrazed, leaving bare soil. When the rain came, the water would run off and cut deep erosive furrows into the earth. The arid landscape could not receive the nourishment it needed. I saw this too in every ceremony I attended, how
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