Dan Flores

"Across the history of life on Earth, animals and birds of many species have routinely colonized new country. That's enough a marker of adaptive success that biologists apply the term "cosmopolitan" to…"

"I actually tried to find some other analogy around the world in modern history that provided an example of any country that had killed this many animals in a short period of time of only a hundred yea…"

"oyotes have now become the most common large wild predators most Americans have ever seen... The tawny, tail-swishing, sharp-nosed wild dog of the American deserts is now our furtive alley predator ev…"

"Optimal Foraging Strategy models... have asserted that what appears to be "conservation" among hunting peoples was actually a by-product of attempting to maximize hunting efficiency and use of time. T…"

"Dan Flores, Historian and Author, Part 2 "Report from Santa Fe" produced by KENW."

"he truth is that coyotes have never been solely wilderness creatures. ...for the 15,000 years since we humans have been in North America, coyotes have always been capable of living among us. ...A coyo…"

"But the conventional narrative is lumpy, a story that glosses what passes for quiescence to focus on "events": the appearance of Lewis and Clark and DeSmut, the removal of the native Salish people, th…"

"Chaco unquestionably had coyotes in town; coyote bones are common in the archeological sites of the inner city."