The Wildlands Project [Slide Show] Page 4

"Furthermore, most attempts to use sustainability as a management paradigm have been anthropocentric, biased toward commodity production, and seriously flawed from a biological standpoint."

--Wild Earth, pg 13

Wildlanders reject the notion of sustainability; managing to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. Their feeling is that management of natural resources for "sustainability" is an anthropocentric concept, not a biocentric one, and therefore not acceptable.

The first science director of the Wildlands Project is Reed Noss. Dr. Noss has designed the science of the Wildlands Project to be consistent with their mission statement. Key to the implementation of the Wildlands Project is the return of large meat-eating predators to the landscape. Accordingly, this will restore the balance of nature.

Their vision statement reads:

Black Bear Range	Wolf Range	Grizzly Range

This is what that vision looks like on the ground. This is the Wildlands Project restored black bear, wolf, and grizzly bear range.