Re-establishing the natural balance - Americas and Exotics

[santaman2000]

Speaking of conservation and funding, we're headed for a sharp decrease https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/m/3...813164eb/ss_decline-in-hunters-threatens.html

 

[Robson Valley]

It isn't possible to reinvent the past. Management for sustained yield in this day and time is all we have.
Many people went to see the film: Jurassic Park. There's no clue as to what really went wrong and why.
Read the book. I don't think we need what's in the book.

As our population ages, more and more geezers (like me) are dropping out of the serious hunting fraternity.
Hunting 2,000 lb bison with my cheque book is my style. But, hunting license numbers are stable in BC if not rising a little.

Younger city people have discovered that game is organic and hunting is the way to do it.
They get to do their camping and hiking now with some purpose in mind = food!
There are serious hoops to jump through and fences to hurdle to ever get as far as a hunting license in British Columbia.

Must be good license statistics in the UK. What's happening?

 

[Ascobis]

The apple trees are behind a 6' fence. There's a slack tape across the top that flutters in the wind.
The deer won't jump the fence because they can't decide where the top edge is.

My grand-uncle had a peach orchard. He added height to his 8-fence to make it 14-feet high. He walked back to the house, turned, and watched a deer jump over the new fence. He would have appreciated the slack-tape tip.

 

[C_Claycomb]

I have just watched several wildlife documentaries on Youtube (David Attenborough - Wild Canada S01E01 - The Eternal Frontier) that discuss among other things how human activity has shaped the landscape in Canada.
The series made particular reference to:

• the rich eastern woodlands first encountered by European explorers and attributed by them to a bountiful God as being the result of native burning of the black oak forest to encourage mixed woods and meadows with more fruit and nut trees.
• the tundra having been grassland which existed symbiotically with the mammoths, until human hunters hastened their demise, the grass died and the soil became waterlogged.
• the clam beds found in coves all along the BC coast, the beds being the result of humans stacking rocks across the cove to encourage silt deposits.

The series made a strong argument that many of the places we think of as untouched wilderness are either now, or were in the past, the result of some human action.

 

[Janne]

Amazonas is largely man made.

I think the problem with restoring a biosphere is to decide to which level.
Not only humans change it, the other animals do too.