The Introduction of large human populations have been sculpting this planet for at least 10,000 years as we swept across continents applying our will on the environment often at the cost of other organisms' lives. In the recent past we removed wolves from Yellowstone Park for our benefit. It has taken the minds and will of those who love this plant to understand the Wolf's importance, and they have brought wolves in 1995. How has this changed our National treasure? Read the following article, but I'll give you a hint to who is enjoy the reprieve. Birds! Yes, birds are enjoying the wolf for many reasons.
http://www.wolf.org/wolves/learn/intermed/inter_mgmt/yellowstone.pdf
While this introduction is vigilantly being studied due to all of its implications, to me it begs the question of how non-wild should we make the wild, and if we allow it to be wild, as it should be, how removed should we be forced to be for our own protection?
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