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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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Sunday, November 23, 2014

HOW WOLVES CHANGE RIVERS is a great short video that you can open and watch by clicking on the link below...........The storyline follows the John Laundre and Bill Ripple LANDSCAPE OF FEAR paradigm which postulates convincingly that "fear and intimidation are far more common in nature than we realised, with surprising consequences not just for animals but for the entire landscape".............While this paradigm has been challenged in recent years by other biologists, if one reads closely all the competing literature, it seems to reveal that while predators like Wolves, Pumas and Grizzlies might not be solely responsible for promoting healthy landscapes from their top down trophic impacts, they are in fact significant contributors in keeping natural systems, "natura;", helping to optimize biodiversity via their coursing and ambushing of prey animals.............Enjoy the video.................and the Psychology Today article that reflects on THE LANDSCAPE OF FEAR

THE LANDSCAPE OF FEAR ON CAMERA IN THE YELLOWSTONE SYSTEM


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CLICK BELOW TO READ ARTICLE  ON THE lANDSCAPE OF FEAR THEORY

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