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Here is what we’ve been reading, watching and writing about over the past week…

Articles

The Lost History of Yellowstone: “The Big Myth about Yellowstone is That It’s a Pristine Wilderness Untouched by Humanity.”

For decades the management policy of Yellowstone Park and its surrounding forests has been to reduce human impact. To accomplish this, personnel have closed roads to restrict access, and reduced hunting, fishing, logging, grazing, prescribed burning and other means of fire prevention and fire control. They won’t vaccinate wildlife against diseases like brucellosis as is required with livestock. All this is done – and not done – in the mistaken belief that human management is “unnatural” and harms habitat and wildlife.

But, with respect to human impact, what is “natural?”

Quoting the excellent article below, “The big myth about Yellowstone is that it’s a pristine wilderness untouched by humanity.”

In fact, however, “Native Americans were hunting and gathering here for at least 11,000 years.” Native Americans “were pushed out by the government after the park was established.”

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Research Being Carried Out at the Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute

CKWRI is probably the leading wildlife research facility in the US.

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Failure to Recover

As discussed below, 50-years into the Endangered Species Act, 3% of listed species have recovered – and that probably overstates the actual ‘successes’.

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Videos

Alaska: Wolves vs Bull Caribou

Produced by Drew Williams who says, “A pack of wolves attacks a bull caribou near the Delta River in Alaska’s Interior.”

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