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We believe that a healing-the-wound approach is an excellent way to analyze conservation
problems and to accomplish visionary but achievable goals across a landscape. Healing the
wounds is also a powerful metaphor that can move conservationists to action and can inspire
the public. Healing ecological wounds can change people from conquerors to plain citizens
of the land community. 35 Unless we heal the wounds, we will have a continent “wiped clean
of old-growth forests and large carnivores”; we will “live in a continent of weeds.” 57
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