A 20-year study on the effects of reintroducing wolves into Yellowstone National Park was just published.
When you disturb ecosystems by changing the makeup of a food web, it can lead to lasting changes that are not quickly fixed,” Tom Hobbs, lead author and professor emeritus with the Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability and the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, said in the report.
And stop destroying it from the other end by spraying pesticides all over our wilderness areas. In 50 years we will be going “oh my gosh we shouldn’t have been destroying the smaller creatures.”
Who would have thought.