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The 10s of thousands of years of wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of this continent lost thru genocide and displacement could have preserved this continent's exceptional nature. Yellowstone NP Supt Cam Sholley is the first in his role to engage the original human inhabitants of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem in determining the region's future. The results have been a watershed for wildlife.

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Indigenous tribes in Northern California are reclaiming their heritage. They're taking down dams and using long-established practices to care for the land, especially the forests.

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Glad I’ve lived to see the day the dams in California coming down.

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Maybe the super volcano under the Yellowstone Caldera will come to life again and prove in a day that we humans haven't got a clue about "controlling the Earth."

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TCinLA I think Iceland will already attest to that. Icelandic scientists have fine- tuned monitoring the earth, but seem to acknowledge human limitations in trying to control it.

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major understatement, "the day" that happens!

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How about the dinosaurs least favorite reindeer name - "Comet" Ancient history has had more than one planetary restart .

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Wait. So you mean the “Enlightened West” does _not_ know everything better than these primitive heathens?? [/sarcasm]

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Enlightenment has been railroaded by progress and riches. Took out Native practices also. Follow the money still says it all.

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That, and a copious dose of both Western Enlightened arrogance and white colonialist supremacy...

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Cam is a Good Guy.

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