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Re:Nature's capacity to 'bounce back' when species are lost ... by hncbw02z5a on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @08:33AM (#49977461)
Did stream restoration for a few years and the thing that stuck with me is you can put the habitat back and the species still don't return. Some of them just have nowhere left to come from.
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Re:Nature's capacity to 'bounce back' when species are lost ... by dylan604 on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @10:20AM (#49978932)
Yeah, at some point, natural restoration can only do so much. If humans cause nature to go out of balance, it gets to a point where it'll take human intervention to come close to getting it back. That might mean manually reintroducing livestock predator and prey.
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