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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, March 29, 2010

Jon Way Coywolf article to be released soon in Northeastern Naturalist(peer reviewed Journal)

Detailed and passionate(whether that is the right adjective to apply to scientific writing or not.................I believe passionate describes the attached!!) analysis by Jon Way and colleagues making the case for the Eastern Wolf/Western Coyote hybridization events that have produced C. latrans/lycaon..............our Eastern Coyote.  Jon and team lay out the facts for our Eastern Coyote to now be formally recognized as Coywolves.  With Coywolves being a good 10 pounds heavier than our Western coyote(c.latrans) at 30 to 40 pounds(and on occasion 50 pounds), our Northeastern canid has demonstrated that it is better adapted anthropogenically to the modified farm/field/woodland/urban interface habitat that most of the Eastern USA has been transformed into through our human alteration of the landscape.

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