Rewilding North America: a vision for conservation in the 21st century

Bad news

The extinction crisis

The pleistocene-holocene event: forty thousand years of extinction

The first wave

The second and third waves

Ecological wounds of North America : direct killing and habitat loss

Ecological wounds of North America : fragmentation, loss of ecological processes, exotic species, pollution, and climate change

Good news

Conservation biology

Rewilding North America

Selecting and designing protected areas: the early days

Selecting and designing protected areas: the past two decades

The importance of wilderness areas

Taking action

Putting the pieces together: building a North American Wildlands network

An ecological approach to wilderness area selection and design

Land management reforms for implementing the North American Wildlands network

Hope for the future.