By F. Stebin Horne III, Founder, eco-x.travel She'd had wild dogs nipping at her from below the night before we ever found her. No pride backing her up. No mate to help her hold ground....

There's a word conservationists use when they take a piece of land that's been fenced, farmed, managed, and optimized to death, and slowly hand it back to itself. They call it *rewilding*. You pull out...