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Edwynn -> RE: Wolves in Yellowstone. (10/11/2014 8:10:43 PM)
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ORIGINAL: MercTech
One thing was left out of his historical timeline.. the overgrazing damage occurred after the National Park Service was forbidden to grant hunting permits any more.
You need an apex predator for a viable ecosystem. For 50 years men filled that niche. Then it became politically incorrect for man to cull the oversize herds in national lands and the population explosion of herbivores damaged a lot of ecology. Damaged Yellowstone so much they had to import wolves from Canada to rebalance things
Excuse me, but what a crock.
The over grazing occurred because the ranchers had shot the wolves to extinction in that region, so the elk had no impetus to keep on the move. We only started importing the wolves from Canada once an understanding had been reached with modern day ranchers.
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For 50 years men filled that niche.
Right. White men, you obviously mean. So then the whole of the US western region was barren from over grazing for millennia until the white man came along and shot a few elk, for their 50 years of fame and glory. While the indigenous folks here for thousands of years prior to that ecological disaster just sat there and scratched their noses and said "Well, whatta we do about all this barren terrain?", "I dunno, just wait for whitey, I guess."
All whitey did was shoot the wolves and the buffalo and the natives to near extinction, all of them.
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