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Grizzly bears, black bears, wolves, coyotes, cougars/ mountain lions,bobcats, wolverines, lynx, foxes, fishers and martens are the suite of carnivores that originally inhabited North America after the Pleistocene extinctions. This site invites research, commentary, point/counterpoint on that suite of native animals (predator and prey) that inhabited The Americas circa 1500-at the initial point of European exploration and subsequent colonization. Landscape ecology, journal accounts of explorers and frontiersmen, genetic evaluations of museum animals, peer reviewed 20th and 21st century research on various aspects of our "Wild America" as well as subjective commentary from expert and layman alike. All of the above being revealed and discussed with the underlying goal of one day seeing our Continent rewilded.....Where big enough swaths of open space exist with connective corridors to other large forest, meadow, mountain, valley, prairie, desert and chaparral wildlands.....Thereby enabling all of our historic fauna, including man, to live in a sustainable and healthy environment. - Blogger Rick

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Monday, March 29, 2010

Roland Kays Eastern Coyote article-Western Coyotes hybridizing with Eastern Wolves

My friend Roland Kays who operates out of  the NY State Museum writing skillfully and explaining in full the exodus of the Western Coyote into the Northeast and Canada and subsequent hybridization with Eastern Wolves(C. Lycaon). Roland and his colleagues detail their theory and pathway that the coyotes took to their connection point with wolves as well as the ecological and physical characteristics of this new canid and its ability to fit in effectively to a changing Northeastern USA environment, ultimately achieving 'top dog status".

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