TROPHIC CASCADE
TROPHIC CASCADE - Camillle T. Dungy After the reintroduction of gray wolves to Yellowstone and, as anticipated, their culling (culling = reduction of a wild animal population by selective slaughter) of deer, trees grew beyond the deer stunt of the midcentury. In their up reach songbirds nested, who scattered seed for underbrush, and in that cover (underbrush= shrubs and small trees forming the undergrowth in a forest.) warrened snowshoe hare. Weasel and water shrew (rabbit warren=a network of interconnecting rabbit burrows.) ((an enclosed piece of land set aside for breeding game, especially rabbits.) returned, also vole, and so came soon hawk and falcon, bald eagle, kestrel, and with them hawk shadow, falcon shadow. Eagle shade and kestrel shade haunted newly berried runnels where deer no longer rummaged, cautious (runnel=rivulet, streamlet) (rummage=search unsystematically and untidily through something) as t
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