Thinking Like a Mountain
 From my interpretation, it seems to be about Aldo Leopold's first time killing a wolf.  He was sitting on a mountain with a friend of his and once they saw wolves coming at them, they fired upon the wolves with much excitement to the point where they lacked accuracy.  When it was all said and done, they mortally wounded the oldest wolf of the pack and Aldo and his friend realized the mistake they had made.  They were able to approach the wolf before it passed, and that was when Aldo saw a "green fire" in the wolf's eye, which represented the bond the wolf had with the mountain.  Once this little incident happened, Aldo become more conscious of the extirpation of wolves.  At the end, Aldo expresses how important it is to respect nature and its wildlife because Thoreau describes wildness as "the salvation of the world".  I found the first part really hard to read.  As a lover of animals, whenever I hear or read about people killing animals, it just doesn't settle very well with me and made me a little uncomfortable, and it made me sad when Aldo said he soon regretted his decision.  It kind of went along with my feelings in the sense that killing animals that isn't involved with safety precautions is tough to swallow.  I thought "thinking like a mountain" in terms of an ecological standpoint was spot-on in terms of how we view nature and animals.  We see a wolf kill a dog and the general public comes to the conclusion that wolves are killers, but they view dogs as a threat to their food chain, which makes the relationship between the dogs and wolves interspecific competition.  Because we view wolves this way doesn't mean they don't have a positive effect on our environment.  Wolves are prey to other animals and if there happens to be an absence in the wolf population, it impacts the animals that prey on wolves in a negative way.  Also, wolves keep other populations at a relatively steady rate, which makes our environment more sustainable in terms of carrying capacity.  If I were to think about the Marquette area, I would think similarly.  People get bent out of shape when the wolf population becomes large but over time, the population will decrease because of the intraspecific competition for common resources will eventually become low and the wolves will eventually die off.  I'm not really for the wolf hunt for the reason I listed above.  If the population of wolves becomes too large, it will eventually decrease because of competition between the other wolves.