Changing Landscapes & Wildlife Culling!!!!

[Hiker of the Woods]

There is way more culling of numerous wildlife species than people realize because of how much we as humans have changed the landscape making it difficult to live with wildlife without having to get involved with wildlife management. So glad to see some of this information getting out there.

"Cristina Eisenberg, chief scientist with the environmental group EarthWatch Institute, is among a number of wildlife biologists who say the culls make sense. That's because today, Yellowstone bison don't migrate. Not like they used to. In a human-managed landscape where bison are mostly relegated to the boundaries of Yellowstone National Park, anything above 5,000 bison is simply too many. If bison numbers continue to grow ? as they would even with predation by Yellowstone?s wolves and hunting outside the park?s boundaries ? the bison could decimate native grasses, damaging the native ecosystem instead of helping it."

?There are people who think that we should just protect everything and we can't ever have too many,? Eisenberg says. ?But nature had its own balance, and we've removed the ability of systems to function within that equilibrium. Now we have to play god.?
https://www.hcn.org/articles/the-science-behind-yellowstones-bison-cull

 

[2lumpy]

I believe we've been playing God since the first human planted the first seed of maize, and hauled the first container of water to irrigate. We now have no other choice other than to parish. Hunting and gathering is no longer an alternative.

DC