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. -
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One of the studies he mention comes from the Wyoming Dept. of Fish and Game. Although in a peer reviewed journal, I would still have to question the motivations of the writers. Question not discount.
Chris,,,,,,,,more to come on trophic cascades and top down wolf influence in tomorrows blog entry........A healthy questioning is the job of all of us(citizenry) in a healthy democratic environment......keeps everyone as honest in their revelations as possible
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