I suppose extinction is a collaboration of sorts
Michael Estabrook
I’m heading to Schenectady, New York, to visit Alan Catlin so we can discuss our next collaborative book effort, and I stop off in Albany to wander through the New York State Museum, a huge collage of Natural History (Adirondack Wilderness) and Man-made History (New York Metropolis). And I notice that both of these histories converge, collaboratively if you will, in the Wilderness in Transition Exhibit where elaborate dioramas depict mammals in reconstructed wildlife habitats. Out in front of each is a little sign, all with the same drearily similar crypt-like ring, a hollow dank ringing that stays with me and stays with me and stays with me: The Timber Wolf no longer inhabits New York State. The Wolverine no longer inhabits New York State. The Mountain Lion no longer inhabits New York State. The Moose no longer inhabits New York State . . .
