The “idiot” who removed them were the settlers that wanted to live in the west. It’s kind of hard to raise the livestock needed to live on farmsteads with wolves running all over the place. This article is from The Hill which is of course going to take the greenie perspective. If you wanted to settle the west then wolves had to be removed, they’re incompatible with higher density human habitation. The fact that it would change the predator/prey relationship was a given. How many bison do you see today in downtown L.A. or Denver? Same thing, if you want people to live there then some animals have to be removed.
” How many bison do you see today in downtown L.A. or Denver?”
Can you imagine the chaos of some rancher pulling up in downtown Denver with a trailer, dropping the ramp and letting out 15 or 20 buffalo?
Then hold a quick press conference scolding everyone that the people of Denver are the visitors on buffalo land and should respect the balance of nature.
“Same thing, if you want people to live there then some animals have to be removed.”
And besides if man removing something from the ecosystem wreaked havoc then nature own depredations, if you will, would have things in a constant state of havoc.
Absolutely correct.