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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, August 30, 2010

Does anyone else get angry when you hear folks say that while a State like Florida or New Jersey has several million people, a thousand or so black bears have to be killed off because "there are too many"................

Fla. black bears may have rebounded too much

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- It wasn't too long ago that Florida was desperate to save the black bear.
The species lost so much habitat and became so heavily hunted in the 1950s the animals were almost never seen.
Decades later, it looks like the state may've done too good a job.
The black bear population has exploded, forcing the animals out of the wilderness and increasingly into contact with humans.
The animals have been spotted prowling gated communities, in back yards, garbage cans and even at Universal Orlando. The problem is particularly acute in central Florida because black bears have rebounded so strongly in the Ocala National Forest.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission is studying the issue.
The most controversial idea is whether to reopen a hunting season for the animals.
Information from: South Florida Sun Sentinel

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