Dan Flores
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4,468 appearances
23 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 18 Aug
Dan Flores’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Over the quarter century since, the term rewilding and the movement itself have gone global.
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When Dave Foreman imagined rewilding, he imagined bears, wolves, big cats, and the ecologies associated with them to landscapes on a grand scale.
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I've done previous episodes of the American West describing the classic large-scale rewilding projects set in motion by American Prairie in Montana,
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and the Southern Plains Land Trust in Colorado.
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When I bought my piece of Yellow House Canyon in the early 1980s, rewilding as an idea was still two decades in the future.
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Nonetheless, my instincts, along with an immersion in the history of the West Texas Canyonlands country, led me in a direction with my 12 acres no one else I knew then was attempting.
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In a classic of Western expansion, my piece of ground had clearly suffered ecologically from prior owners' various efforts to make the canyon pay off.
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On my subsequent place in Montana, and the one in New Mexico as well, in Montana on 24 acres in the foothills of the Sapphire Mountains on the east side of the Bitterroot Valley, and later on the 11 acres I own on the south rim
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of the Galiseo Valley in New Mexico, the same processes had played out.
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In all these places, market hunters, wolfers, cattlemen, sheep and goat herders, wheat farmers, and loggers had manipulated and transformed the ground in their quest to make money.
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Then, fire suppression policies had made all their dismantlings and destructions even worse.
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On pieces of ground of 10 to 15 to 25 acres, I wasn't going to be able to reintroduce bison or pronghorns or see wolves impose top-down ecological change.
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But I could affect what I've come to think of as reverse homesteading, turning back the clock on a piece of land towards some earlier, healthier version of itself.
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So in three American places, on the kinds of rural personal home acreages some 16 million of us in the West now live on, employing fire, restorative forestry, and a massive removal of exotic weeds, I've restored my pieces of ground to make them familiar and welcoming to the original wildlife.
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According to the Global Rewilding Alliance and the Rewilding Institute, this is called rewilding.
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In a country as recently settled and altered as the American West, though, I've come to a different conclusion about restoration like this.
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It seems more accurate to me to say that I'm trying to return small pieces of the Western landscape to the form thousands of years of native management gave them.
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Restoration like this has a bioregional dimension.
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One of the arguments about being a citizen of a bioregion is that you should endeavor to understand your place.
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Learn something about the local geology, about how the landforms you see around you came to be.
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