The truth about the wolves of Yellowstone
Oct. 13th, 2014 06:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrewduckerThis is a fantastic video that tells an amazing story about how the reintroduction of wolves into Yellowstone park made a huge difference to the local ecology, turning it from a place on the edge of collapse back into a thriving ecosystem:
It's really nicely told, ties things together into a neat story, and is well worth a watch.
Sadly, it's also a massive over-exaggeration, taking snippets of truth and weaving a mythology around them whereby a few awesome looking predators can reverse decades of mismanagement and Make Everything OK*.
I swear my gravestone is going to have "It was more complicated than that" written on it.
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It's really nicely told, ties things together into a neat story, and is well worth a watch.
Sadly, it's also a massive over-exaggeration, taking snippets of truth and weaving a mythology around them whereby a few awesome looking predators can reverse decades of mismanagement and Make Everything OK*.
I swear my gravestone is going to have "It was more complicated than that" written on it.
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Date: 2014-10-14 01:18 am (UTC)I thought this was a beautiful story.