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In France hundreds of sheep are killed after bear chases them over cliff
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<blockquote data-quote="Dave70968" data-source="post: 3012883" data-attributes="member: 13624"><p>You're painting this like it's an all-or-nothing situation. It's not; there's room for the wolf there as well.</p><p></p><p>There's an interesting video about that study:</p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]ysa5OBhXz-Q[/MEDIA]</p><p>(The narrator incorrectly refers to the elk as deer, though they are both cervids. He's British; he's probably not familiar with the American Elk.)</p><p></p><p>I suggest watching it fullscreen, at high resolution (yes, Dennis, I know your internet connection precludes video; I'm sorry, but I can't help you there). The video discusses not just the effect on the elk, and on vegetation, but on coyotes (reduced due to predation from wolves), foxes, rabbits, mice, bears, bald eagles, beavers...even physical changes to the land. Erosion declined as trees became better-rooted, and rivers became more stable.</p><p></p><p>This is a very complicated system, but I'm not prepared to say that restoring it to its natural, balanced state is anything but a good thing. And I suspect the tourism won't suffer one bit for the change.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave70968, post: 3012883, member: 13624"] You're painting this like it's an all-or-nothing situation. It's not; there's room for the wolf there as well. There's an interesting video about that study: [MEDIA=youtube]ysa5OBhXz-Q[/MEDIA] (The narrator incorrectly refers to the elk as deer, though they are both cervids. He's British; he's probably not familiar with the American Elk.) I suggest watching it fullscreen, at high resolution (yes, Dennis, I know your internet connection precludes video; I'm sorry, but I can't help you there). The video discusses not just the effect on the elk, and on vegetation, but on coyotes (reduced due to predation from wolves), foxes, rabbits, mice, bears, bald eagles, beavers...even physical changes to the land. Erosion declined as trees became better-rooted, and rivers became more stable. This is a very complicated system, but I'm not prepared to say that restoring it to its natural, balanced state is anything but a good thing. And I suspect the tourism won't suffer one bit for the change. [/QUOTE]
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