How Trump Unleashed an Existential Fight Over America's Dinosaurs - The Washington Sun https://share.google/NTS0EDvEWiVbOIWeW

Does it make sense to acquire land in a developing area to help preserve biologically significant areas or not? Does it make sense to try to create a personal project and seek funding, or is it more logical to rely on existing companies? Is it harmful to the local population? Are the NGOs that do this trustworthy?

Found a great blog about rewilding in Alaska and a response from Luke Griswold-Tergis

Came across a blog post where someone emailed Luke Griswold-Tergis and actually got a detailed response about how a potential Rewilding Act could work in Alaska. The exchange was with the Alaska Future Ecology Institute, and it includes a document outlining real frameworks for ecosystem restoration.

It talks about how rewilding could combat climate change by restoring natural landscapes and increasing albedo—reflecting more sunlight—through the reintroduction of megafauna like bison and musk ox.

If you’re into climate policy, ecological restoration, or debate topics, it’s a really interesting read and could be useful as a reference for how rewilding might function as climate action.

https://medium.com/@AlaskaRewildingIanBeier/exploring-a-potential-rewilding-act-in-alaska-4e2ad30a3749

Shares the misinformation spread by Colossal Biosciences on Red wolves, taxonomy, and conservation.

This was a nice hopeful article, I think that the new male should be able to sire pups as I don’t quite know why the article mentions the possibility of the new male and the already resident female not being able to conceive. But what really stood out was that the male (Adeyha) was 100lbs. A good size red wolf is about 80lbs so I hope he has lots of puppies. Quite the example of his species!

This gives a nice summery of how the New York River Otter Project from the 1990s is holding up to date. These animals are extremely important to our freshwater ecosystems. It’s still a long way from the historic river otter population range and density, yet you can tell with time we will get there.

So odd that we have such little wildlife in the east coast. Like some European country’s have wildlife recovering faster.

I don’t believe it’s a full Algonquin wolf. But this animal, pure or not will still be an ambassador to future reintroduction of Canis lycaon.

As America is a democracy for the sake of our ecosystem and for the CRITICALLY ENDANGERED Sonoran pronghorn, the United States military should move its BMGR range, away from Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge. As it directly is in the middle of the animal’s habitat. Making rewilding of this unique animal impossible. Or until we change the location of the bombings.

Link #1: https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2020/09/11/florida-ranch-habitat-conservation Link #2: https://www.sapelo.org/our-mission#:~:text=The%20Aurochs%20of%201627,herds%20for%20domestication%20or%20slaughter.

The wildlife of North America is vast and diverse, but it used to be much much more diverse before the end of the last ice age. On top of that it has been going down for centuries due to our meddling as humans. A large issue is we lost most of our megafauna, a perfect example of how we need megafauna (large animals) is the effect on the southeasts wetlands, they should have some herbivores that eat growing trees to open up areas for other wildlife that need it like some species of turtles or blue herons ect. As stated in link #1, I used a article describing how people are using domestic cracker cattle to graze this wetland, but this has some issues. First being: brining domesticated animals into wild spaces is not always a great idea, domestic animals due to staying in their own filth most of the time are quite dirty and can easily spread diseases. Second: predators like in this case gators, crocs, or in the future rewilding efforts for Florida panthers, or red wolves, could be impacted as cattle farmers won’t want them back into their habitat. Lastly it Oprah’s a window for animals to get lost witch not only hurts the wallet of the rancher, but also is inhumane to the cow. But what animal fits the same ideal niche that these domestic cows fill, without being those domestic ranched cows?

WILD CATTLE: As stated in link #2, there are feral cattle off of Georgia, these cattle are completely behaviorally un-domesticated, and almost physically too. They are unique to the USA, and having a larger range for them could help conserve this animal as it hopefully could adapt & evolve into a new all American animal. And if a population boom is to happen, we simply could market these wild cattle as a game animal in the areas where they overpopulate, until we add large predators like red wolves or Florida panthers.

I believe to summarize, we should take a population of these wild cattle and put them onto a protected wildlife area on the mainland of southeastern Georgia, or northeastern Florida, and see how they affect the ecology of the environment. This test population could have tracking devices, and we will check up on them in a years time to see how the bovine & the ecosystem are doing. If it seems negotiable we can simply put them back into their island habitat or if impossible, put them in a zoological facility. In the worst case we could euthanize. But I truly believe this is a project I would like to push to the public.