The article goes on to say:<p>&gt; Yet David Mech, a biologist who has worked extensively in Yellowstone, advises that such simple narrative arcs are hard to find in something as messy as an ecosystem. Mech does not discount all of Monbiot&#x27;s claims, but cautions that as much harm could come to the wolf from being marketed as the poster boy of the environmental movement as it did in the era when it was hated and feared.<p>One of the narratives in a re-wilding context is that human are not part of the &quot;wild.&quot; Yet in post-glacial areas like Scotland and Yellowstone, where humans arrived shortly after the ice melted, the ecosystem developed with humans as one of the apex predators.<p>We see this in Australia, for example at <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;climatechange.umaine.edu&#x2F;Research&#x2F;Contrib&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;pdfFiles&#x2F;contribution%2013.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;climatechange.umaine.edu&#x2F;Research&#x2F;Contrib&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;pdfFile...</a> :<p>&gt; For thousands of years, desert Aborigines have set fire to the arid savanna, creating an environmental patchwork to which much of the desert plant and animals are specifically adapted. Where Aborigines have been removed from their lands, the desert patchwork has often been obliterated with devastatingly large wildfires.<p>Humans are left out of the rewilding equation because I think it&#x27;s drawing from a romantic tradition of what the wild is supposed to be.