What is Wild?
Part 1, Missing Lynx: Rewilding the World - Mountain Journal
Efforts to return wild animals to former habitats draw lessons from Greater Yellowstone.
An editor's note highlights that the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem has a complete suite of wild North American mammals living much as they did before European explorers arrived.
no other place in the Lower 48 has such a collection of predators and plant-eaters; from lynx to grizzly bears and from beavers to bison.
This puts an onus on us as guardians of such a rare landscape to both maintain its qualities and share its lessons.
This series of stories explores how we define the word “wild,” in a place tangled with prehistoric food webs and artificial boundary lines.
Author's summary: Exploring the concept of "wild" in Greater Yellowstone.