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Jennifer Jacquet is a Ph.D. candidate with the Sea Around Us Project at the UBC Fisheries Centre. She works closely with Dr. Daniel Pauly, who coined the term Shifting Baselines, the syndrome on which this blog focuses.
Josh Donlan is a conservation scientist and a Visting Fellow at Cornell University. He often hides out in the backcountry of the Teton Mountains, pondering bygone giant beavers and ground sloths. He also is also the founder and Director of Advanced Conservation Strategies and has a habit of restoring remote islands.
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Pleistocene Dreams
Category: Rewilding
Posted on: June 26, 2008 5:49 PM, by Josh Donlan
Comments
The phrase "creating landscapes of fear" should probably be excluded from public arguments in favour of this plan.
That being said, the idea is a very neat one.
Posted by: Milan | June 26, 2008 8:12 PM
landscape of fear: in thise case, i was referring to landscapes of fear with respect to wolf food - ungulates. not human landscapes of fear, which is actually a much more rich and interesting topic. The anthropologist Paul Shepard writes a length how predators likely shaped much of the human condition via those landscapes of fear.
Posted by: Josh Donlan | June 26, 2008 10:35 PM
Nice piece Josh. No doubt my kids would be enthralled. I liked the Vermeij quote at the end.
Posted by: Peter Nelson | June 27, 2008 7:20 AM
A perspective that needs to be reinforced at every opportunity. Thanks for keeping it (and us) current.
Posted by: doug l | June 27, 2008 12:02 PM
Thank you for this.
Posted by: Hank Roberts | July 6, 2008 7:42 PM
Excelletn article Josh - I've had a couple of blog posts of my own on your ideas (and Zimov's work) lined up for months now that I never quite get round to finishing up.
Anyway - I've seen a few articles outlining the general idea for north america and initial suggetsions of appropriate surrogates - can we expect to see more detailed proposals soon? Or are they already out there and I've missed them?
Posted by: tai haku | July 7, 2008 8:35 AM