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Nature 437, 476 (22 September 2005) | doi:10.1038/437476b; Published online 21 September 2005
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Re-wilding: don't overlook humans living on the plains
Steven Shay1
- Department of History, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164, USA
Proposals made by Josh Donlan and colleagues to "re-wild" the Great Plains ("Re-wilding North America" Nature 436, 913–914; 2005) assume that if the land is void of people, it is necessarily open to exotic megafauna. As a historian of the twentieth-century American West, I disagree, and I believe the re-wilding plan would be harmful to current environmental efforts in the area.
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