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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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Thursday, November 20, 2014

The Civil War was a huge step forward to accelerating the environmental destruction of the USA..............The "snowball" of forest removal, habitat destruction and species extirpation mirrored the technology explosion that all Wars engender.................It also quickened the "here and there" siren calls from deep thinking transcendentalists who began lobbying for land protection and environmental consciousness

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The Civil

 War's

 Environmental 

Impact

BY TED WIDMER
Northern and Southern
 armies cut down roughly
two million trees.

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