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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, February 10, 2015

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world"----Naturalist, JOHN MUIR..................... The annual PLANT-O-RAMA garden show at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens is featuring a "GO NATIVE" theme this year...............As the Arkansas Native Plant Society puts it: "Natives are the species that oiginated in a region and existed here before settlers arrived".............. "Native plants have developed in a special balance with the birds, butterflies and wildlife in the eons they have coexisted"............ "They are neighbors that have gotten to know each other and live in balance"............ 'Native plants are naturally well-suited for the soils, climate and conditions found in a given region"................ "Generations of birds, butterflies and other wildlife have come to depend on native plants to exist in in the area, bloom at certain times, and provide food or shelter at other times"............. "Migratory species also depend on native plants along their historical routes"............ "A decrease in native plant species, combined with overall habitat loss has caused many songbird populations to seriously decline"............ "Some people think that birdfeeders can make up the difference, yet songbirds require native insects to successfully raise young"............... "A wren needs 500 insects in a single afternoon for her fledglings while a brown thrasher consumes 6000 insects in a day!"............. "Those native insects—which we rarely ever notice—require native plants"............... "Once you have seen your garden aflutter with the wings of colorful visiting birds and butterflies, you will never be content to garden for prettiness alone"

Sent by rick.meril@gmail.com:
In the Garden

At Plant-O-

Rama in

 Brooklyn,

 the Message

 Was 

That

 Beauty Is

No Longer 

Enough

By ANNE RAVER
Planting with
the birds,
 the bees and the
butterflies in mind.
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