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<blockquote data-quote="Ethan N" data-source="post: 3232277" data-attributes="member: 29267"><p>I’ll throw in my <img src="/images/smilies/twocents.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":twocents:" title="Twocents :twocents:" data-shortname=":twocents:" /> and say I agree with returning wolves to Yellowstone to attempt to restore better balance to the system. I’m no ecologist, but I think it’s foolish to drastically alter natural ecosystems that we all benefit from. Even seemingly very small changes can have disastrous effects (I recall something about Yellowstone having tons of birds dying because they added some new species of fish). Humans are pretty bad at predicting the consequences of their “management” of natural resources. Decades of dam-building in the 20th century allowed people to build and farm in flood plains that were too risky before. But dams have robbed the land downstream of the sediment that helped make it fertile farmland, deepened riverbeds downstream which lowers the groundwater table and adds cost to irrigation, encouraged invasive species that reduce wild food sources for humans, and threatened the existence of wild salmon in North America.</p><p></p><p>Don’t even get me started on beavers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ethan N, post: 3232277, member: 29267"] I’ll throw in my :twocents: and say I agree with returning wolves to Yellowstone to attempt to restore better balance to the system. I’m no ecologist, but I think it’s foolish to drastically alter natural ecosystems that we all benefit from. Even seemingly very small changes can have disastrous effects (I recall something about Yellowstone having tons of birds dying because they added some new species of fish). Humans are pretty bad at predicting the consequences of their “management” of natural resources. Decades of dam-building in the 20th century allowed people to build and farm in flood plains that were too risky before. But dams have robbed the land downstream of the sediment that helped make it fertile farmland, deepened riverbeds downstream which lowers the groundwater table and adds cost to irrigation, encouraged invasive species that reduce wild food sources for humans, and threatened the existence of wild salmon in North America. Don’t even get me started on beavers. [/QUOTE]
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