Philosophy 2033A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: A Sand County Almanac, Wolf Reintroduction, Woodlot
1 Jan 2019
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Consequences of the wolf re-introduction in yellowstone: controversial. Trophic cascade if you remove or replace some species at a certain level in the ecosystem, it can have cascading consequences. Dilemmas of one who cannot live without wild things. There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace. It is all too clear that every surviving oak is the product either of rabbit negligence or rabbit scarcity. Soon after i bought the woods a decade ago, i realized that i had bought almost as many tree diseases as i had trees. My woodlot is riddled by all the ailments wood is heir to. I began to wish that noah, when he loaded up the ark, had left the tree diseases behind.
