Bio-Nerds discussion

The Summer Group read is Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators by William Stolzenburg. Please share your thoughts here.

I just finished the chapter on Yellowstone (Chapter 8), and thought I'd share this article from the NY Times in 2005. I carried this clipping around with me until the manila paper disintegrated. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/18/sci...
The article dates from before the harsh winter of 2005-6 that Stolzenburg mentions in chapter 8.

I am enjoying the book so far.
EDIT: I just noticed that this article is mentioned in the bibliography along with other reports.

I really enjoyed this book. It was recommended to me years ago by my advisor and several classmates in my conservation biology class and I'm glad I finally got around to reading it.
Anyone have any thoughts about rewilding in the US?

Megan wrote: "Anyone have any thoughts about rewilding in the US?"
I like the idea of introducing species analogous to those that have become extinct, such as the Bactrian camels, cheetahs, and elephants mentioned in the book whose New World cousins recently became extinct.

But I doubt rewilding could ever get off the ground politically, at least not by referendum. Wild animals will affect everyone's metaphorical (and sometimes literal) back yard, and I think the knee jerk reaction most people tend to have towards free-roaming megafauna would nip any rewilding policy in the bud.