The wilding of the American West is definitely a controversial idea. Josh Donlan provides links to the details of the proposal and asks the readers to do a quick poll about it - go do it!
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Josh Donlan of Shifting Baselines wants to know what you think of Pleistocene Re-wilding. I recently aired some of my complaints about the hypothetical plans after reading Paul Martin's Twilight of the Mammoths, but while I don't support the idea I would encourage you to take the survey and add…
Over the last several hundred years, humans in North America have unwittingly selected the species that are going to be coexisting with humanity in the future. Rare native flora and fauna have disappeared, but some organisms have flourished in the modified landscape. White-tailed deer, coyotes,…
The dynamic duo of Shelly from Retrospectacle and Steve from Omni Brain have now teamed up to bring you Of Two Minds. Also, Josh Donlan has started his stint as a contributor to Shifting Baselines, so there may be more about Pleistocene re-wilding on Sb in the near future.
For those of you wondering what happened to the terrestrial and re-wilding side of Shifting Baselines, Josh Donlan is off trekking in Nepal until the end of May when he will rejoin with new insights and hopefully no frostbitten fingertips.