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Grizzly bears, black bears, wolves, coyotes, cougars/ mountain lions,bobcats, wolverines, lynx, foxes, fishers and martens are the suite of carnivores that originally inhabited North America after the Pleistocene extinctions. This site invites research, commentary, point/counterpoint on that suite of native animals (predator and prey) that inhabited The Americas circa 1500-at the initial point of European exploration and subsequent colonization. Landscape ecology, journal accounts of explorers and frontiersmen, genetic evaluations of museum animals, peer reviewed 20th and 21st century research on various aspects of our "Wild America" as well as subjective commentary from expert and layman alike. All of the above being revealed and discussed with the underlying goal of one day seeing our Continent rewilded.....Where big enough swaths of open space exist with connective corridors to other large forest, meadow, mountain, valley, prairie, desert and chaparral wildlands.....Thereby enabling all of our historic fauna, including man, to live in a sustainable and healthy environment. - Blogger Rick

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Monday, March 29, 2010

Joe Butera, President of Northeast Recovery Society seeking resticted hunting season on Coywolves(Eastern Coyotes

Joe has been active for years in New York State seeking the Fish and Wildlife Dept to "re-plant" wolves into the Adirondacks and New England. His plea to the New York Dept. of Environmental of Conservation Chief regarding a restricted Coywolf hunting season  is to the point and backed up by the detailed science that Roland Kays(NY State Museum) and Jon Way(Eastern Coyote Research) provide in their articles on the Eastern Coyote(Coywolf) in the posts that follow this one. As Joe states, the canid species being killed in New York State and the Northeast, have the characteristics/morphology of both wolf and coyote."
An near full year(9 month no bag limit) hunting season for our hybrid wolf/coyote Coywolf has nothing to do with conservation and perpetuation of the species...................................old school and out-of-date thinking on a species that has brought back wolf genes into our woodlands.

click here to read Joe's full letter

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