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Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Politics Catching Up: Dave Foreman Interview

Posted by Jim Nintzel on Wed, May 6, 2009 at 1:48 PM

Occasional TW contributor Dave Maass interviews environmentalist Dave Foreman, a former Tucsonan and one of the founders of Earth First!, at the Santa Fe Reporter's blog. Foreman, who faced some trumped-up federal charges many moons ago, is now the brains behind the Rewilding Institute, which is pushing to ensure we have unspoiled wilderness and large carnivores in the United States.

As Foreman explains it:

"Rewilding" is basically helping the wilderness and wildlife conservation movement evolve with the influence of the science of conservation biology and saying we need to look at large landscapes, even on the continental level, to do real conservation. Rewilding is based on recent research that shows the importance of large carnivores, such as wolves or mountain lions. When large carnivores are lost from a ecosystem, the ecosystem begins to unravel. Yellowstone National Park is a great example. So, the Rewilding Institute works a lot on supporting the recovery of large carnivores, such as the Mexican wolf. We just recently put out a brochure on a North American continental vision for wolf recovery.

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Note how Rewilding and other environmental groups seem to forget about one of the major species inhabiting North American ecosystems: Homo sapiens.

Wolf recovery plans that don't include humans as having a rightful place in ecosystems are just plain undoable and unrealistic, and the only ones who benefit from such planning are the environmental groups themselves.

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Posted by cred on 05/06/2009 at 2:24 PM

Thank You Mr. Formean for the book, ECO -Warrior, I haven't read it in year,-glad I read some of it tonight.
Humans second, Earth 1st.

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Posted by la in LA on 07/03/2009 at 11:19 PM
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