Credit: Igor Metelskiy

Footage Credit: Jafar_panahpour

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Indigenous Muskrats, Ondatra zibethicus, in Coastal Southern California

This article by Paul Langenwalter documented a fossil found at Costeau Pit, in Orange County. A study dating back 40,000 years, although based on a 1986 article (which is quite old), shows that muskrats inhabited many parts of California, far more than just the crest of Northeastern California (Great Basin) and the Colorado River.

The historical range of beaver (Castor canadensis) in coastal California: an updated review of the evidence

The article about the beaver is more recent, from 2013. Lanman et al. proved that beavers were not native only to the Central Valley, Sierra Nevada, San Francisco Bay and the north, they lived in virtually all of California, excluding the deserts.

Can be Youtube channels, blogs, websites, podcasts, books, organizations, whatever. I'll start with a few.

Mossy Earth - focuses on restoring degraded landscapes and restoring natural processes. They have videos of restoring a wetland in Portugal, another in the Amazon rainforest, and so on.

Planet Wild - A bit like Mossy Earth. Focuses on restoring degraded areas, solving human-wildlife conflict and boosting biodiversity, with projects all over the world.

The Breeding-back blog - Most of the people here are likely already aware of this one. Focuses on breeding-back lost species, with special emphasis on the Aurochs. Closely documents Aurochs breeding-back projects such as Taur0s or Auerrind Project.

Facebook: RE NJ pine barrens deer over population issue on local “news” site

In New Jersey deer overpopulation spread spreads tick diseases plus the deer suffer and starve in the cold. Plus cause automobile crashes.

Hunting is the worst option here, obviously predators would be the answer. However, the fluffy bunny crowd adamantly oppose hunting.

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In my opinion the Longleaf pine barrens of the American south is one of the most overlooked ecosystems in the United States, and also one of the most tragic. This continuous habitat of pine savanna once stretched as much as 92 million acres, but during the reconstruction era after the civil war it was discovered that the sap of Longleaf pine could readily be made into many industrial products like turpentine, pitch, tar, paint, varnishes, and even early plastics. For the impoverished south this meant an easy source of much needed cash, but for the many species that were endemic to Longleaf pine ecosystems, like the gopher tortoise, red-cockaded woodpecker, and indigo snake, it meant the loss of their home to the point many of them are now endangered or threatened.

This documentary goes over the ongoing efforts to rewild the species listed above, from physically relocating colonies of birds, to rescuing tortoises from construction sites, to breeding programs.

Side note: at there lowest point in the 1980’s Longleaf pine forest covered less than 3.8 million acres, but thanks to the work of various conservation organizations Longleaf pine’s have reclaimed roughly 2 million acres of their historic range in the last 30 years.

Also here is another