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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, April 23, 2016

"We forget that we are the biggest cause of evolution on the planet right now,” says Suzanne MacDonald, a psychologist and biologist at York University in Toronto, Canada, who studies urban raccoons"............... "We have this view of the wild as a pristine place" and of evolution as something that happens "in the wild"....................... "But humans in cities are changing the animals now".................. "And with so many animals going urban, humans must view cities as part of—not separate from—nature, adds MacDonald, a National Geographic grantee".......................... "To live in harmony with animals whose habitat we’re destroying, we’re going to have to do a lot more work in what we’re doing to them",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"It’s a pattern we’ve seen across the whole continent—they’re figuring out a way to deal with whatever we’ve done to the landscape," adds Chris Nagy, a wildlife biologist and co-founder of the research project Gotham Coyote"............. "It’s a lot of fun to study species like that"

https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/04/160418-animals-urban-cities-wildlife-science-coyotes/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYCSoUMTM4NjQ4OTQwOTM3MDc5Mjk0MzkyGmY1MDlhNmI0NGUzZGM2ODk6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNF8zDSIjenqA_V2qX462MCd4PfeWA
How Wild Animals Are Hacking Life in the City

Los Angeles Puma in
 Burbank and a EasternCoyote in Queens, NY


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