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
2 comments:
Nice to find this interesting blog. We have a summer home on the shores on Lake Michigan just west of Manistique. Our backyard is a wetlands leading up to the beach and Lake Michigan, and we have coyote and wolves right in our area - I have heard them making a kill in the middle of the night - that scream is a sound I will not soon forget!!
Marijoy................I have been up to the lake area north of chicago and indeed, a fine piece of land............thanks for checking in and being a blog reader---Rick
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