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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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Saturday, July 31, 2010

Linda Rutledge brings optimum insight, visual and verbal clarity to the complicated status of "Canid Soup"(the blending and overlapping of C.lupus, C. lycaon, C. rufus, C.latrans and C.latrans X kycaon

Before initiating my blog in March, one of my primary focus points in previous emailings to my growing list of biologists, geneticists, researchers, students, outdoorsmen and interested laymen was the makeup and geographical status of the Gray Wolf, Eastern Wolf, Red Wolf, Coyote and Eastern Coyote(Coywolf) in North America.............................Were Eastern Coyotes a separate species from it's Western cousin? Is the Eastern Wolf the same as the Red Wolf and in fact is the Eastern Wolf a separate species from the Gray Wolf?
The esteemed researchers who I have come to know and respect actively(with vigor and facts) debate amongst themselves these very questions posed above. 
In this posting, Linda Rutledge of Trent University helps bring into focus these challenging and insightful questions and theories surrounding what types of wild canids are roaming the USA, Canada, Mexico and Central America................................I cannot get enough information on this topic as it impacts the whole historical predator and prey question..........................what wild Canids are best equipped to fulfill their historical functions of preying on Deer, Elk, Buffalo, Caribou, Moose and Beaver.................................what wild Canids are best equipped to fulfill their historical functions of preying on squirrels, rabbits, mice, voles and the other small herbivores that occupy our forests and grasslands?

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