Welcome to the land of wildfire, hypothermia, desiccation, and rattlers.The stark and inhospitable high-elevation landscape of Nevadas Great Basin Desert may not be an obvious (or easy) place to settle down, but for self-professed desert rat Michael Branch its home. Of course, living in such an unforgiving landscape gives one many things to rant about. Fortunately for us, Brancha "e;humorist, environmentalist, and author of Raising Wilda "e;is a prodigious ranter.From bees hiving in the walls of his house to owls trying to eat his daughterss cata "e;not to mention his eccentric neighborsa "e;adventure, humor, and irreverence abound on Branchs small slice of the world, which he lovingly calls Ranting Hill.
