The Return of the Wolf: Reflections on the Future of Wolves in the Northeast (Middlebury Bicentennial Series in Environmental Studies)
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| Rating | : | 4.36 (930 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0874519675 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 182 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-02-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Efforts to restore them to Yellowstone, North Carolina, and elsewhere have provoked heated public debate and met with only mixed success. Kristin DeBoer, director of the wolf restoration project of the environmental group RESTORE: The North Woods, reviews the state of the political debates, while also offering a personal account of her own motivations and goals in this work. John Theberge, a scientist with years of experience in tracking the Canadian wolf population, notes that issues of restoration and "return" are far more complex from a biological and ecological point of view than much of the debate would suggest. This book brings together four thoughtful and literate observers of the natural world to reflect on the implications and potential of such an effort.Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature, encourages a skeptical look at our own motivations in this restorative effort, even as he argues that the psychological and spiritual benefits to humans would be at least as great as the ecological benefits of restoration. Finally, novelist and nature writer Rick Bass brings the experiences of his home state of Montana to bear on the debate in the northeast.. Scientists and policymakers are debatin
"John Elder has assembled an excellent primer on the subject This is must reading for lovers of eastern wilderness." —Audubon Magazine
Arthur Digbee said Interesting essays in a disunified collection. Wild timber wolves were famously reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park in 1995, as well as to Central Idaho. Much less visibly, wolves continue to thrive in northern Minnesota, Michigan's Upper Peninsula, and parts of Wisconsin.Even so, the species covers only a very small portion of its original range. Given the support of many Eastern environmentalists for wolf rei. A Customer said Wol Restoration in the east. The Return of the Wolf is an eye-opener as it gives four very distinct and honest evaluations of the possibility of our northeastern forest communities welcoming the timber wolf back to it's native haunts. Let us not confuse the eastern coyote which has hybridized with the eastern wolf as the as the easts top canid predatorThe wolf, just as in Yellowstone and Minnesota i. Nikki Voliotes said Helping wolves. I believe this is a cause for restoration. This book made me believe that the wolf should be released in to the Adriondack mountians. It also had me believing that the ecosystem needs the wolves to survive. I was especially fascinated by Kristen Deboer's idea of creating corridors between parks in Canada ans the northeast, to help creat migratrion routes for animals. I b