Wilderness and Wildlife Conservation
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You find yourself in a conservation fight where the other side’s stock in trade is irrational fear-mongering and a pickup load of hoop-snake myths and then it hits you— haven’t we been here before? Haven’t we already fought this battle and won? In the case of wolf recovery in the U.S. West, this is the third go ‘round in a [...]
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In the late 1700s, the big spotted cat—the jaguar—lived and bred and hunted in what was to be the United States from the Tennessee River Valley to California. Until the middle of the twentieth century, smaller and smaller breeding populations hung on in the U.S. Southwest. In the last decade, what seem to be a few lone toms [...]
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If you work long on national forest issues, you become jaded with the United States Forest Service. You soon understand that, far from being a trustworthy, well-meaning public servant, the Forest Service is an inbred bureaucracy driven to do things its way, and to insure itself a free hand. Under a cult of professionalism and as a hierarchical [...]
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