National Parks Traveler |Rewilding the West

The Biden administration's desire to preserve at least 30 percent of the country's lands and waters for nature by 2030 has heightened the public's interest in nature, and spurred countless conversations into not only how that goal can be achieved, but about the benefits that it will generate. Professor William Ripple from Oregon State University, Michael Phillips from the Turner Endangered Species Fund, and Elaine Leslie, who was the National Park Service's chief for biological resources, discuss their proposal to expand the territories of wolves and beavers in the American West to "Rewild the West."