Restoring Biodiversity - 7/30/2024
New evidence on the timeline of humans in America. Wolverines are back in the news. Active forestry management practices are necessary wherever there are Ruffed Grouse. And more...
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Articles
Archaeologists Found 23,000-Year-Old Footprints That Rewrite the Story of Humans in America
As discussed below, new evidence steadily accumulates that humans were in America 10,000 - 20,000-years earlier than previously believed.
Wolverines Are Back in the News
According to the reasoning of the author of this article, wolverine restorations will fail because of climate change, and aren’t worth the effort.
With all due respect to Dr. Mason – and as he acknowledges in the article – wolverines were exterminated in large part through programs and advice of government wildlife ‘managers’ implementing their horrible, ongoing predator eradications, not global warming. And if his warming prediction is true, the cold forest (“boreal”) areas wolverines like will replace areas too cold currently, as has been happening for thousands of years.
The other thing wolverines need is food. We must overhaul the (mis)management of our forests to increase animal numbers and reduce wildfire. This is widely discussed in this blog.
Better forest management is coming – but slowly. Meanwhile, in a few areas, let’s release wolverines in sufficient numbers to achieve critical-mass breeding populations. Protect these from hunting and predator ‘management’. Otherwise, just leave them alone. We don’t need additional layers of bureaucratic straight jackets imposed by wildlife agencies (as with grizzlies) to do this. Keep it simple, cheap, and above all as far away as possible from the bureaucracies and NGO ‘conservationists’. Given a chance and left alone, wolverines – and the people with whom they must coexist – will do fine.
Videos
Revitalizing Ruffed Grouse Habitat: A Call for Sustainable Forestry
These active forestry management practices are necessary wherever there are Ruffed Grouse, including especially in the decadent Lodgepole/Douglass Fir/Aspen forests of Idaho, Wyoming and Montana.
The Story of Meat
Public demand for healthy, tasty food produced in a manner that respects nature is the driving force behind the growing acceptance of holistic agriculture. This 20-minute video discusses how sustainably managed livestock can help restore damaged ranch and farm lands.
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