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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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Monday, June 8, 2015

With our fossil fuel burning accelerating climate change, species are increasingly moving into regions where they have not either been previously documented or last documented thousands of years ago during natural hot weather spikes.............The age old question,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,do we let hybridization run wild or do we seek to preserve some historical species integrity?,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Arguments from Researchers on both side of the coin can be read below by clicking on the hyperlink....................My take is to not have a "one size fits all" approach----In the case of the Red Wolf, do everything to ensure it enduring into the future alongside Eastern and Western Coyotes,,,,,,,,,,,building it's population to the degree that Wolves can readily find mates with their own kind rather than resorting to mating outside their "tribe"

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With climate change, species are increasingly interbreeding to survive | Public Radio International


With climate change, species are increasingly interbreeding to survive
















The eastern Coyote expanded it's range east/west/north and south
due to us humans killing off it's limiting predators--Wolves and 
Pumas





















Being referrred to as "Grola Bears", Grizzly and Polar Bear
hybrid due to warm temperatures in Northern Canada and
Alaska "inviting" Grizzlies to wander north into territories
last occupied tens of thousands of years ago

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