{"id":1277,"date":"2010-01-22T06:50:21","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T14:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=1277"},"modified":"2010-01-22T06:50:21","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T14:50:21","slug":"re-wild-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/22\/re-wild-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-wild America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting book review in the <em>New York Times<\/em> re: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/22\/books\/22book.html?hpw\">Rewilding the World, Dispatches From the Conservation Revolution,<\/a> by Caroline Fraser. <\/p>\n<p>An idea developed by Dave Foreman, Michael Soul\u00e9, Reed Noss, and others, &#8220;rewilding&#8221; is all about &#8220;the restoration of animal habitats and the importance of migration corridors.&#8221; And that includes some fun critters that roam the wild: large carnivores.<\/p>\n<p>Any tome postulating the rewilding of America&#8217;s shattered landscape is worth the look. But it still comes back to the bottom line, rewild or not &#8211; too many hungry members of <em>Homo erectus asphaltus<\/em> crashes ecosystem viability. <\/p>\n<p>Corridors and critters are a lofty goal. But until we deal with our impacts to carrying capacity, it&#8217;s all academic. <\/p>\n<p>Want a bail-out package that works? Free condoms!<\/p>\n<p>posted y Mudd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting book review in the New York Times re: Rewilding the World, Dispatches From the Conservation Revolution, by Caroline Fraser. An idea developed by Dave Foreman, Michael Soul\u00e9, Reed Noss, and others, &#8220;rewilding&#8221; is all about &#8220;the restoration of animal habitats and the importance of migration corridors.&#8221; And that includes some fun critters that roam [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1277"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1279,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions\/1279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}