"Thinking Like A Mountain"

          What do wolves and the forest have in common? If you try to remove it, everything else will become unbalanced and will fall apart. A mountain has a very balanced ecosystem, and if something is added or removed, it creates havoc. Even though mountains can't really talk, or even think, they are more intelligent then the human race.
          This story was about how the mountains need everything, but the ranchers were ruining the mountain. They started to kill off the mountain lions so the lions wouldn't touch their cattle. But then, with the receding mountain lion population the deer began to over-populate and kill the mountain. The deer were eating all the plants, and the mountain couldn't recuperate to the growing number of deer. But it was more artistic value to it, it was very well written.
         This has changed my perspective on the ecosystem and deforestation. I didn't realize how much taking away just one thing from the habitat it can completely ruin it. Even if someone thinks that there are plenty of the species, and starts hunting them or takes them out of the ecosystem, then something will go wrong. For example, if the bunny would eat only one type of grass, but then an epidemic comes and takes out the grass then the bunny will starve and then whatever eats the bunny will have some problems trying to find other food to eat. It is a chain reaction, or a domino effect.