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Wilderness areas, at least in the United States, are best thought of as vast gardens where natural processes of predator-prey relationships, flooding, fire, etc
by MiguelVieira 7y ago
Wilderness areas, at least in the United States, are best thought of as vast gardens where natural processes of predator-prey relationships, flooding, fire, etc are left to play out without much human intervention. If anything, we're re-creating a landscape from before Paleo-Indian settlement.
- vwcx 7y agoI'm not sure I agree. Most of the US public lands are actively managed, and even the lesser-touched 'Wilderness Areas' are still highly influenced by the surrounding human communities. The continuing 100+ year old debate around the Forest Service's wildfire policy is one example of how these relationships aren't as natural as we believe on first look.