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This is a lot harder than people anticipate. While we can "patch up" gaps in supporting wildlife with things like highway crossings (example: https://apnews.com
by throwawaysea 5y ago
This is a lot harder than people anticipate. While we can "patch up" gaps in supporting wildlife with things like highway crossings (example: https://apnews.com/article/north-america-mountains-us-news-wa-state-wire-wildlife-36755628e4c44fdabb01cb9599fa5aef https://apnews.com/article/north-america-mountains-us-news-w...) we have bigger ecological problems that are harder to fight. For example, invasive species of plants and animals are very hard to manage and require concerted efforts to establish native species while removing non-native species. Whether Asian carp or Scotch Broom or whatever, the widespread footprint of invasive species has distorted our ecology so much that minor accommodations from how we build may amount to a blip on the radar. My point is not to say this isn't worth talking about, but to draw attention to a larger need for something like an "environment corps", funded to just put in the hard labor required to address these other widespread issues affecting health of wildlife and our environment.