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Rewilding Earth Best of 2019 Rewilding Earth Best of 2019 Edited by John Davis & Susan Morgan Rewilding Earth Best of 2019 Edited by John Davis & Susan Morgan Essex Editions Rewilding Earth: Best of 2019 Copyright © 2020 Editors John Davis & Susan Morgan Cover Painting © Steven Kellogg Photos on Back Cover: Susan Morgan © John Miles John Davis © Kim Vacariu All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher, except for educational purposes or for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review. Published in the United States by Essex Editions. ISBN: 978-1-7335190-3-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2020905445 Essex Editions Post O"ce Box 25 Essex, New York 12936 www.essexeditions.com [email protected] T#$%& '( C')*&)*+ Introduction by John Miles and Susan Morgan .................................................................................................. 1 Eagle Mountain Success by Jon Leibowitz .......................................................................................................... 3 Forever Wild by Sophi Veltrop ........................................................................................................................... 8 Adirondack Wildways Update by John Davis ..................................................................................................... 9 Wildlife Crossings in the Adirondacks by Kevin Webb ..................................................................................... 11 Something Wicked ,is Way Comes: ,e Menace of Deep-Sea Mining by Eileen Crist .................................. 20 You are the Last Whale by Gary Lawless ........................................................................................................... 26 Wild Carbon by Mark Anderson and Jon Leibowitz ......................................................................................... 27 Pro-le of the Northern Forest Atlas Project by the Editors................................................................................ 30 Box Creek Biodiversity by Christopher R. Wilson ............................................................................................ 32 ,e Librarians by Robert Michael Pyle ............................................................................................................. 36 Drifting from Rewilding by Mark Fisher .......................................................................................................... 37 Rewilding Scotland by Kenyon Fields............................................................................................................... 40 European Experiments in Rewilding: Elbe River Biosphere Reserve by David T. Schwartz ............................... 43 How to Bring the Bison Home by Susie O’Kee.e ............................................................................................ 47 Days of Fire by Stuart Pimm ............................................................................................................................ 48 Will You Join Us in Defending the Arctic Refuge? by Brad Meiklejohn ............................................................ 51 Tongass National Forest Alert by Andrew ,oms ............................................................................................. 52 Citizen Scientist: Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction by Mary Ellen Hannibal, Reviewed by John Miles ...................................................................................... 54 White Birds of Winter by Saul Weisberg .......................................................................................................... 58 A Tale of ,ree Weasels by Paula Mackay ......................................................................................................... 59 ,e River I and ,e River II by Tim McNulty ................................................................................................. 64 Rio Mora Seasons by Brian Miller .................................................................................................................... 65 Embers from the Camp-re, When Republicans Loved Endangered Species by Uncle Dave Foreman ............... 69 Cow-Bombing the World’s Largest Organism by Andy Kerr ............................................................................ 70 Wildlife Versus Livestock in the Upper Green by George Wuerthner ................................................................ 74 New Mexico’s Wildlife Corridors Act: A Path Toward Success by Michael Dax................................................. 76 Embers from the Camp-re, Quitobaquito Springs by Uncle Dave Foreman ..................................................... 80 Tapping the ,ird-Rail: Wildlife Watching and State Wildlife Funding Reform by Chris Spatz ....................... 81 Planting for Bees and Butter/ies by Gary Lawless ............................................................................................. 84 Wilderness in the Anthropocene: What Future for its Untrammeled Wildness? by Roger Kaye ........................ 85 Train #7, North Dakota by Susie O’Kee.e ....................................................................................................... 89 Combat Overpopulation Denial by Richard Grossman, M.D. ......................................................................... 90 Ecotone by David Crews .................................................................................................................................. 92 ,e Cli. Edge: Generating Political Will for the Required Level of Change by Randy Hayes ........................... 94 From No Sense of Wild to a Need to Rewild North America by John Miles ..................................................... 97 Appendix About the Cover Artist ............................................................................................................................... 105 About the Contributors .............................................................................................................................. 106 About !e Rewilding Institute and Rewilding Earth .................................................................................... 115 Rewilding Earth Website Post Index ............................................................................................................ 117 About the Rewilding Bookstore.................................................................................................................... 128 Sponsors .................................................................................................................................................... 131 Dedication We dedicate this book to our friends and close colleagues Dave Foreman and Nancy Morton. If the concept of rewilding has parents, they are Dave and Nancy. Dave Foreman is rightly and widely celebrated for his half-century of leadership on wilderness and wildlife issues (please see the bio we wrote for him in Appendix). Nancy (arguably, the real head of their household—with the only ones who’d challenge that claim being their two cats!) gets less recognition but has been a powerful conservation leader for nearly as long, most recently as president of the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance. Whole books will be written about the lasting in/uence of and wild places saved by this daring duo of wilderness champions. For now, just let it be known, these pages honor all who speak out for wild places and creatures, but especially Nancy Morton and her husband Dave Foreman, spiritual leaders of our little band of rewilding advocates. May this work help realize their vision of vast wildways stretching across North America and beyond, teeming with life, including those ultimate wildeors, Pumas and Wolves. —Rewilding Earth editors, spring 2020 Petroglyph © Karen Boeger I)*0'123*4') Diablo Canyon © Janice St. Marie By John Miles and Susan Morgan of The Rewilding Institute espite these anxious times about the fate of that economic growth and technology will solve all their the wild and all life on Earth, we believe problems, and they do pose serious existential threats. Now despair is not an option. It’s true, there are that we are facing a world-wide pandemic with no rational Dtoo many humans who want too much stu., cause too national leadership, we must be even more alert to short- much destruction, and believe with too little humility and long-range e.ects to our natural world. Public lands 1 REWILDING EARTH BEST OF 2019 INTRODucTION continue to be targeted while much of the public is isolated Park and Box Creek Wilderness in the Southern Appala- and distracted. We will have to change our strategy and chians. We present wild ideas of wildness in the Anthro- tactics to address this toxic combination of threats, and in pocene, an overview of how conservation has evolved to this collection from Rewilding Earth (rewilding.org) you will rewilding, and two brief eloquent pleas for wild things read about projects to defend wild nature that o.er cause for from our founder Dave Foreman—all complimented by hope and inspiration. beautiful poetry and art. Here we present some of the -nest articles we “Cumulative e.ects” is a phrase often used to collected during 2019 that feature good thinking and describe how small insults to nature add up to big
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