Humans of the Working Wild is a collection of stories from people in the West who are living, recreating and working with and among wildlife on working lands, lightly edited from

I finally decided on this [ranch] in New Mexico simply because it's one of the most remote places in the lower 48. And it's got a full complement of varmints

We've, I've, lost a lot. 45 people in our small little community: young people, middle aged people, old people, doesn't matter. Some of them did not have any health issues