Dan Flores

Cause I think the listeners would like it.

I listened to a interview with Dan Flores who wrote coyote nation.

I have his books, wild new world and American Serengeti.

check out dan flores uh fantastic author he was talking about how they were strychnine poisoning canines uh from the teens on up to the depression era and that some of these animals were would become isolated now i don't know if this is due to strychnine poisoning but i had heard a cryptozoologist describe the What he believes the Ozark howler to be is a red wolf, a native red wolf who has lost his pack.

And he's going to high places trying to reclaim his social order.

Very interesting.

I mean, I kind of love coyotes in their way.

To anybody listening, if you haven't ever read Dan Flores' book, Coyote America, it's such a gem.

I highly recommend it.

But coyotes are such an interesting case in various ways, too, because they're like the best example of what ecologists call a mesopredator.

This monthly series revisits talks that continue to shape the questions that shape how we understand the world.

In twenty twenty-two, SAR hosted writer and historian Dan Flores for the organization's annual President's Lecture.

Drawing from his book, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America, Flores delved into stories and insights from his research and was joined in the conversation by environmental historian Sara Dant.

Beginning sixty-six million years ago and extending into the present, Wild New World traces the intertwined history of humans and animals in North America.

Flores asks how the continent came to possess its extraordinary diversity of wildlife, how native peoples lived alongside that diversity for years, thousands of years, and how dramatically those relationships changed following European colonization.

In this conversation, Flores and Dant explore ideas people have carried about their relationships to other animals and the consequences of those ideas.

They consider the disappearance of species once abundant across the continent, the destruction of wolves and bison, the origin and the role of religion and market forces in shaping attitudes towards wildlife, and the possibility that humans can choose a different relationship with the natural world.

What follows is the original conversation presented as it was recorded.