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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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Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Paleontologists have looked at the environmental changes that occurred in North and South America after large megafauna went extinct over the past 15,000 years, and found long-lasting impacts...............Recent studies point to the loss of mammoths, native horses and other large animals in Alaska and the Yukon as the reason a productive mix of forest and grassland turned into unproductive tundra that dominates the region today............."If we lose some of these big-bodied animals that are threatened with extinction today, we lose a lot more than those animals, we lose the entire ecosystems of which they are part"........... "We are moving into new territory in terms of what the planet will look like".

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/sciencedaily/plants_animals/~3/Hwl--vKoNIE/151026171759.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email

Loss of large land mammals could change landscapes forever

Extinction of megafauna in Americas upset plants and animals for thousands of years



















2 comments:

Dr. Alien said...

I don't understand the drawing, neither Paraceratherium neither wooly Rinoceros lived in North America.

Coyotes, Wolves and Cougars forever said...

Hello Dr. Allen.............I do not have a list as I type this on the complete set of megafauna that graced North Anmerica,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,but indeed many species that we associate with Africa and Asia had historical precedents here in our hemisphere