“How do we “rewild” areas where the native species are now extinct? In England, they use “exotic” species as substitutes. This common sense would collide with so-called “invasive species biology” in most of the US.
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Book Review of “Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History”
Paraphrasing a reader: “A wonderful book on coyotes, which covers several broad themes: coyote resilience, coyote individualism, coyote biology (including a little evolution, the science of which is easily understood), coyotes and people (in the […]
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Can The Wild Horse Fire Brigade Really Work?
To be healthy, forests and grasslands need to be grazed. The grazing must come from more than one species. For millions of years in North America, horses and their ancestors have been part of the animal […]
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Book Review of American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains
American Serengeti is Dan Flores’ natural history of the American Great Plains throughout its 13,000-years of human presence. According to the author, the book is the “Big History” of two lost worlds, both of which were […]
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Wild Horses: Are They Being Managed to Extinction?
Because humans have eradicated most predators of wild horses, humans are the only means of wild horse population control. How many horses are too many? Probably a lot more than we have today. Here are […]
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Are Wolves the Pronghorn’s Best Friend?
Wolf and coyote eradications have exploded coyote numbers across North America. This has increased coyote predation of pronghorn fawns. Coyotes are pronghorns’ most effective predators; wolves will not tolerate coyotes. 150-years of coyote ‘management’ using […]
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Call for Horse Grazing Pilot Study To Explore Wildfire Mitigation
Wild horses and burros, properly managed in combination with other animals, can help prevent wildfire.
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The Secret Lives of Well-Digging Burros
“Far-West Texas burros are eradicated by state and federal parks & land managers based on the belief that they “compete” with other wildlife for water. In reality – as this Arizona study explains – “it […]
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Are North America’s Wild Horses Native?
The fake science of invasive species biology classifies horses as “invasive” “exotics” that “compete” with “natives” to “harm” “ecological systems”. These terms are neither scientifically defined, nor consistently applied. As Dan Flores, author of American […]
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Shy Elk and Bold Birds Become Partners in the Wilderness
Complex relationships between species such as birds and grazers are common, but often unrecognized by over-simplified wildlife management theories. As a result, wildlife managers routinely attack species whose interdependence we do not understand. For example, […]
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