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Bring back the Buffalo! Create wildlife corridors from Rocky to Mississippi!

hammock 4y ago
> Create wildlife corridors from Rocky to Mississippi Are there any funds which currently seek to do this? I’d be interested in doing it myself
- peteradio 4y ago
  I'm afraid I'm unaware of any funds. My state funds restoration areas on the scale of 80 acre+ parcels, but corridors would require an unbelievable amount of contiguous spaces. I imagine it would be a multi-century project to establish such a thing with all the arm twisting.. I mean incentives required.
- brudgers 4y ago
  Just for geographic scale, Google says the distance from Denver to Memphis is 1000+ miles. Though of course it would probably make sense to start along a river. Maybe the Arkansas if you want to start at the Colorado Rockies: length 1400+ miles. But the Missouri is an option that could connect up with the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Unfortunately that is quite a bit longer at well over 2000 miles (because a river does not run as a crow flies). Anyway, it’s going to take a fair bit of money, so there will be plenty to pay seven figure executive salaries making it a cracker of idea.
  - bobthepanda 4y ago
    People also tend to live near rivers, so it would be quite difficult.
  - Cupertino95014 4y ago
    I did look at the Form 990 for this charity. As of 2019, about a $2.5M budget, and only one salaried employee, making a not-at-all-princely salary. Of course, with that amount of money, they can't do much more than fund studies.
  - amanaplanacanal 4y ago
    The problem with rivers is that there are cities all along them. I can’t even imagine the cost.
    - brudgers 4y ago
      At 1000 miles, the cost of any corridor from the Rockies to the Mississippi is pretty much unimaginable anyway, so why not fantasize about the right way of doing things? Or to put it another way, the distance itself is beyond what people tend to imagine. And any route across the Great Plains is going to run across prime farmland.
      - amanaplanacanal 4y ago
        Farmland is a lot cheaper than any land in a city.
        fijiaarone 4y ago
        Until you take away the farmland. Then the land in cities becomes worthless.
        brudgers 4y ago
        Prime farmland is not as cheap as is ordinarily imagined. In part because it’s value is based on the income it generates and in part because revenue generation means it is often not for sale since selling means finding another investment with similar properties.

> Create wildlife corridors from Rocky to Mississippi Are there any funds which currently seek to do this? I’d be interested in doing it myself

peteradio 4y ago
I'm afraid I'm unaware of any funds. My state funds restoration areas on the scale of 80 acre+ parcels, but corridors would require an unbelievable amount of contiguous spaces. I imagine it would be a multi-century project to establish such a thing with all the arm twisting.. I mean incentives required.
brudgers 4y ago
Just for geographic scale, Google says the distance from Denver to Memphis is 1000+ miles. Though of course it would probably make sense to start along a river. Maybe the Arkansas if you want to start at the Colorado Rockies: length 1400+ miles. But the Missouri is an option that could connect up with the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Unfortunately that is quite a bit longer at well over 2000 miles (because a river does not run as a crow flies). Anyway, it’s going to take a fair bit of money, so there will be plenty to pay seven figure executive salaries making it a cracker of idea.
- bobthepanda 4y ago
  People also tend to live near rivers, so it would be quite difficult.
- Cupertino95014 4y ago
  I did look at the Form 990 for this charity. As of 2019, about a $2.5M budget, and only one salaried employee, making a not-at-all-princely salary. Of course, with that amount of money, they can't do much more than fund studies.
- amanaplanacanal 4y ago
  The problem with rivers is that there are cities all along them. I can’t even imagine the cost.
  - brudgers 4y ago
    At 1000 miles, the cost of any corridor from the Rockies to the Mississippi is pretty much unimaginable anyway, so why not fantasize about the right way of doing things? Or to put it another way, the distance itself is beyond what people tend to imagine. And any route across the Great Plains is going to run across prime farmland.
    - amanaplanacanal 4y ago
      Farmland is a lot cheaper than any land in a city.
      - fijiaarone 4y ago
        Until you take away the farmland. Then the land in cities becomes worthless.
      - brudgers 4y ago
        Prime farmland is not as cheap as is ordinarily imagined. In part because it’s value is based on the income it generates and in part because revenue generation means it is often not for sale since selling means finding another investment with similar properties.