Restoring Biodiversity - 7/2/2024
Yellowstone is calling for more bison. Saving a forest with more logging? Bird flu is unpredictable. And more...
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Here is what we’ve been reading, watching and writing about over the past week…
Articles
Yellowstone National Park Calls for More Bison in New Plan
The essential element for wild bison restoration is to address brucellosis. This plan – to have more bison and then kill more bison – tinkers around the edges without fundamentally addressing the problem.
Plans for an Ailing Forest Include Logging, and Some Are Suspicious
According to the article below, “As forests become less healthy, researchers say, leaving them undisturbed will in many cases make them more prone to severe wildfires and more vulnerable to drought stress and disease.”
Forest managers have known this for years.
Bird Flu is Highly Lethal to Some Animals, but Not to Others. Scientists Want to Know Why
According to the experts quoted below, “The only thing predictable about (bird) influenza is it’s unpredictable.”
A Bill to Ban Wildlife “Whacking”
More bad press for hunters…
Videos
Changing Paradigms | Regenerative Agriculture: a Solution to our Global Crisis?
“Changing Paradigms” explores the power of regenerative agriculture in improving the natural environment, human health, and reliable profit in sheep farming. We, as humans, have an innate attraction to the natural world. But, the way we currently interact with the environment is unsustainable and causing a disconnect with nature. We have one generation, our generation, to take action and change the paradigm.
See Landslide Cause Highway to Fall Off Mountain Near Jackson Hole
Recently part of the Teton Pass highway collapsed.
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