>>>Our twenty-year wildland restoration project on our property now hosts 357 vascular plant species, of which 245 are native. I defy the UN to find that kind of density in botanical species richness in any park, preserve, wilderness, or open space on the entire continent. I will happily challenge any expert they can produce.
PEOPLE are the best managers of habitat vitality because they induce prospective disturbance and manage predation at all levels of the biological pyramid. Excluding people in the name of “preserving nature” will necessarily lead to catastrophic system crashes and multiple extirpations, whether due to multi-predator systems or uninterrupted succession, guaranteed.>>>
Ditto on my little half-acre up here in Alaska. Folks are astonished at the diversity of plant and animal life in comparison to the relative low diversity of the surrounding boreal forest.
Yep, the “natural regulation” policy of the Park Service means that nearly two thirds of wolf deaths in Denali NP are due to cannibalism.