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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, June 12, 2016

The root word of Conservation is Conserve----And interesting enough, "Conservatives used to be conservationists, focused on preserving our shared heritage from destructive influences"................... "You can, in fact, date the rise of the conservation movement as a political force in this country to a December 1887 dinner party of wealthy big game hunters, largely Republicans, hosted in a Madison Avenue house by Theodore Roosevelt (still a hero to many modern conservatives, despite certain progressive leanings)"............... "He and his guests that night formed the Boone and Crockett Club, dedicated to preservation and management of game"............... "With recent polls suggesting that climate change has begun to loom ominously for many Republicans as it does for the majority of Democrats, it may be time for big, bold, even alarmingly bipartisan thoughts".................. "In the end, our need for clean air to breathe, safe water to drink, a climate that does not change too drastically and forests, oceans and wildlife that remain healthy and resilient has almost nothing to do with whether we are Republicans or Democrats, conservatives or liberals, and everything to do with being fellow residents of Planet Earth, with no place else to call home".................. "So here’s the idea: Why don’t we all just take a walk and have a long conversation about how we can fix up the old neighborhood together?"







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"DEAR CONSERVATIVES 
YOU CAN GO GREEN AGAIN
TO READ
FULL ARTICLE BY RICHARD CONNIFF


Contributing Op-Ed Writer

Dear


Conservatives,

 THE NEW YORK TIMES OPINION PAGE

You Can Go Green Again

By RICHARD CONNIFF
Republicans were once leaders

in preserving our

shared natural heritage.
Or, copy and paste this URL into your browser

: http://nyti.ms/25QHyyi





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