Outside of Grand Ecore, Kessler turns onto the Campti Cutoff and glides along the shoulder, pair of thermal binoculars raised to scan the subtleties of night. His truckful of thermal equipment, including rifle scopes and drone, turns the world into a photographic negative. At 1,000 yards, heat signatures of hogs can appear indistinguishable from cows or deer, and so, methodical as a pathologist perched over slides, Kessler studies behavior.
