Good article and welcome back.
Kinda surprising that someone recognizes that we are part of nature and has the guts to write about. :)
The eco-nutbars will never go along with that though. If they accepted it they couldn’t use every moving thing as a means to stop all development, drilling, mining, etc.
Besides, those salamanders are so cute. :-)
I’ve read that far from the howling wilderness we were taught about their discovery most of the North and South American continents were largly a man made landscape, forms of slash and burn agriculture and deliberate fires set to drive animals having been practised for centuries.