Restoring Biodiversity - 9/16/2025
Balancing grizzly bear restoration with people and their livelihoods. The plan is to recreate the world’s largest bison herd. Conservation, using hunting as a primary tool.
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Here is what we’ve been reading, watching and writing about over the past week…
Articles
10 Creepy, Abandoned Places Reclaimed by Nature
As described below, when man disappears, nature quickly reasserts herself.
A Measured View On Grizzlies, From The Ground
Conservationist Tom Opre offers common sense advice on how to balance grizzly bear restoration with people and their livelihoods - using limited bear hunting as the primary conservation tool.
Quoting the author, "It’s disheartening to see some groups continue using crisis-based narratives to maintain donor funding instead of engaging in balanced, science-based dialogue."
Videos
Restoring Bison at the American Prairie Reserve
Buffalo were the keystone grazing animals of the American Great Plains. At the American Prairie Reserve in Northeastern Montana, the plan is to recreate the world’s largest bison herd.
Podcasts
From Africa to Yellowstone: Tom Opre on Conservation Stories That Matter
Tom Opre talks about conservation using hunting as a primary tool.
And that’s it - as always thank you..
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