“This is a story about the government wanting to please animal conservationists’ by reintroducing bears (who, by way of natural selection, had dwindled in population) near farmers’ livestock.
Another example of over-involvement of the government if you ask me. “
I’m all for reintroducing wolves and rattlesnakes into Manhattan and Washington, DC. Thousands of them.
Don't forget malarial mosquitoes, which killed thousands of residents in the major northeast urban areas, well into the 1800s.
Speaking of wolves, northern France suffered a terrible drought in the years before the 1789 Revolution.
At one point, starving wolves from the rural areas around Paris began to enter the city at night searching for food, and there were dozens of reports of people being attacked.
Since there were almost no streetlights in 1789, the hunting was probably pretty good.