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In Reply to: Yellowstone wolves change rivers posted by Orchardist on October 16, 2014 at 16:56:13:
Excellent. There is a reason that balanced ecosystems work better than the alternatives.
Here on the Arizona Colorado Plateau, grazing cattle radically reduced the prairie grasses on public lands so that Pronghorn antelope offspring were no longer hidden in the tall grasses and were easily found by coyotes. The coyote population increased tremendously, the Pronghorn population started to tank.
So, one would think that the solution was to stop allowing private ranchers to use public lands to feed their herds so that the ecosystem would once again balance, right? No, the Arizona solution was to start open season on coyotes, leaving the cause of the problem completely intact.
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