2065: the entire population of Montana is wolves.
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Don’t ask about Idaho or Wyoming.
Wolf Reboot
Submitted 13 hours ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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jsomae@lemmy.ml 10 hours ago
Psythik@lemm.ee 4 hours ago
How did wolves affect all of this?
zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 4 hours ago
It’s the second box
Psythik@lemm.ee 4 hours ago
How is it the wolves’ faults that elk are assholes?
perishthethought@lemm.ee 12 hours ago
We’re reintroducing wolves in my state now and its been problematic so far.
coloradosun.com/…/gray-wolves-depredation-payment…
Nb: I don’t have a side in this. Just sharing recent news.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 12 hours ago
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/…/ecm.1598 more on this topic, it is open access
perishthethought@lemm.ee 11 hours ago
I wonder if anyone knows whether ranchers in WY / MT lost income & were compensated by the state as well?
NewOldGuard@hexbear.net 10 hours ago
The environment is more important than rancher’s bottom lines
perishthethought@lemm.ee 6 hours ago
1000%
Dasus@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Reintroducing wolves won’t work everywhere.
Hunting can be an effective population control as well, but seeing how large and sparsely populated Yellowstone is, it’s probably why it didn’t work there.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I guess the government pays for all other lost income due to natural events?
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 8 hours ago
Is 31 wolves enough for genetic diversity?
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
The genuinely toxic tale is that we sat around for 69 years before we decided to fix things.
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Most people like to argue that “people didn’t know better back then.” That’s absolute bullshit. There were ecologists and scientists fighting to preserve wolves in the 1920s, and conservatives and capitalists chose to ignore the best advice of educated experts because killing wolves was easier and more profitable.
boonhet@lemm.ee 11 hours ago
Well I for syre learned in school that our ancestors called wolves the nurses of the forest. In our culture anyway. They’re very important because by hunting old and sickly animals preferentially instead of killing indiscriminately, they improve the overall health of populations of other animals like deer or elk. Obviously it’s also not great for any population to get too large because they’ll destroy their own food supply. Again, release the wolves.
whereisk@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
The system is geared towards negative presumption of the recent past even as it glorifies and reveres the long past (ancient philosophers and religious figures).
Just in case most of us figure out that anything we think of as new or intractable problems are things that we knew about and were deliberately ignored or actively campaigned against by the same forces that do it now.
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
For the sake of argument, even if they didn’t know any better (shame on them for not knowing better), they could’ve easily recognized the problem and fixed it much sooner than 1995.
frezik@midwest.social 11 hours ago
PETA is still against it. Adding to the evidence that PETA is not a serious organization.
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
PETA are POS that needs to be put down like the rabid dogs they are.