Have you ever noticed how everything about nature ultimately revolves around systems? We have the water cycle, nitrogen cycle, food chains, wolf/elk/cottonwood/riparian zone interrelations…the list goes on and on. If we take animals out of their usual habitats, they behave differently. Transplanted plants often die because the new soil lacks the proper micro-organisms for their survival. We all depend upon scores of others for our well-being. We live and die in the midst of webs of relationships they form and sustain us.

~ Robert ‘Robin’ Gottfried

Bald Eagle – photo by TAO Photography, used with permission