Rewilding comes to public radio

If grazing cattle is the key to preventing wildfires why is ranch country still suffering from almost daily high even extreme grassland fire danger indices? 

Urban sprawl, accelerated global warming and drought are reducing productivity on the remaining grasslands of the High Plains and Mountain West so if some Republicans are angry about conservation that means it's the right thing to do.

David Gura speaks with William Ripple, professor of ecology at Oregon State University, about his proposal to "re-wild" the American West by reintroducing beavers and wolves to public lands. [NPR]

Rewild the West.