Seeking wild-west eco planetary w/ creepy cool biology recs

Very specific, I know. The Donovan series by W. Michael Gear is ALL of this and I’m obsessed with it. I haven’t been able to find anything else like it.

I think the main thing is - that feeling of being a pioneer and taming a tiny piece of the crazy planet just enough to live on, and needing to adapt to survive. There’s 2 different types of people who come to Donovan - the ones that die, and the ones that thrive. I love the character development it brings out.

I also cannot recommend the Donovan series enough and have been dying to talk to others about it (ever since I started reading it a few years ago - so far there’s 4…5? books out). The audiobook series is FANTASTICALLY narrated.

Side ponder: I wonder if Gear basically tried to encapsulate the feeling of Wyoming in a biologically lush exo planet. Some of his (and her) books are based in Wyoming and I think they might live there. I lived there for 8 years and it definitely had a lot of the same elements as Donovan, but instead of crazy biology, it had crazy weather…