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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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Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Rattlesnake roundups, Coyote Cull Contests and the like are truly symptoms of the egotism of man gone awry...................How do we sit in Church, Synagogue and Mosque and discuss peace on earth during this holiday season when we are so quick to destroy natures(Gods) creation wantonly and with apparent glee? I urge clergy to focus on this theme week in and week out until even the most callous of us grow a conscience on the right for all life forms to seek "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness".............And yes, I would like to think that if Thomas Jefferson were alive today, this most brilliant of our Founding Fathers would agree that this evolutionary phrase in the Declaration of Independence should indeed apply to our native plants and animals found around the world

Let's not glorify killing coyotes

Osgoode's "Great Coyote Cull Contest" demonstrates that humanity has failed to morally evolve over the past century when bounties were placed on wolves, cougars and other large predators.
Any attempt to stigmatize "problem" wildlife by rural municipalities is quickly capitalized by unethical hunters and gun lobby advocates, to wantonly kill wildlife without any intent to use the carcasses.
Coyotes are labelled a threat when we project our own fears on these otherwise intelligent animals. The burgeoning deer population has produced an increase in coyote pup survival. It's nature's regulatory mechanism to keep these ungulates under control. But trigger-happy terminators ignore the ecological contribution of coyotes which also reduce rodent populations saving farmers thousands of dollars annually in lost feed. How would society respond if domestic dogs -- that kill and injure hundreds of people each year -- were run down and slaughtered in competitions sanctioned by local governments and fish and game associations? When wildlife is treated like a commodity, it is subject to abuse. We have learned that bounties contributed to the extirpation of the eastern cougar, wolverine, and red wolf.
Glorifying these competitions nurtures the most base instincts of humanity and is an insult to both our culture and the fraternity of ethical hunters.
Ian Hugget,


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