Monique Verdin, "Headwaters : Tamaracks + Time : Lake Itasca" (2019), digital assemblage. Photograph taken in 2019; United States War Department map of the route passed over by an expedition into the Indian country in 1832 to the source of the Mississippi River.

Predators in the City

February 10, 2015

 

12/23/15 – Increasing numbers of wild animals, including various major predators, are making themselves at home in urban areas across the United States and worldwide, says an opinion article in the New York Times. Such intermingling is helping to fuel a debate in conservation science, reported in Issues, about whether human activity should be viewed as simply part of nature or as a critical threat from which nature must be protected.