Island Press Field Notes

The view of the University of Montana campus from the nearby Mt. Sentinel.

Lynx, like other carnivores, need to disperse.

Carnivore Way, Alaska. Image by Alisa Acosta, used with permission. Click to enlarge.

As an ecologist I have spent the past ten years of my professional career tracking apex predators and large herbivores and their effects on whole ecosystems. Abundant research from all sorts of systems demonstrates that when you allow dominant species,...