Roger Peet

Roger Peet
Ecology of Fear (2nd edition)
$25

At the top of every food chain is an apex predator: a cougar, a wolf, an orca, a lion... These are the regulators of all ecological relationships, the creators of biodiversity. When deer fear wolves, they shun feeding areas where wolves might lurk. Saplings sprout and grow and become trees that provide shade for nesting birds. Birds disperse seeds, transporting flowering plants to new locations, where they are pollinated by insects that feed their nectar to their young. It's fear that keeps the herbivores and mid-level predators (like housecats and humans) in line, and prevents them from skeletonizing the landscape. Where there are no large predators to regulate ecological interactions, relationships fall apart, populations explode, and a simplified world sinks into a slough of its own wastes and surplus self. Sound familiar?

4-color Silkscreen Print
12.5" x 19"
Heavyweight French Paper
Signed/numbered edition of 48