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Re-wilding North America

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A plan to restore animals that disappeared 13,000 years ago from Pleistocene North America offers an alternative conservation strategy for the twenty-first century, argue Josh Donlan and colleagues.

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Figure 1: Pleistocene re-wilding in North America.

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Acknowledgements

We thank the Environmental Leadership Program, Lichen Foundation, Turner Endangered Species Fund, New Mexico Agricultural Station, Ladder Ranch, C. Buell., S. Dobrott, T. Gorton, M. K. Phillips and J. C. Truett for support and encouragement.

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  1. Josh Donlan: Co-authors are Harry W. Greene of Cornell University; Joel Berger who is at the Teton Field Office, Wildlife Conservation Society; Carl E. Bock and Jane H. Bock of the University of Colorado, Boulder; David A. Burney of Fordham University, New York; James A. Estes of the US Geological Survey, University of California, Santa Cruz; Dave Foreman of the Re-wilding Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Paul S. Martin of the Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson; Gary W. Roemer of the Department of Fishery and Wildlife Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico; Felisa A. Smith of the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque; and Michael E. Soulé who is based at Hotchkiss, Colorado.

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  1. the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 14853, New York, USA

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Donlan, J. Re-wilding North America. Nature 436, 913–914 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/436913a

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