LMDawnclass card

Bioregional Rewilding Initiative (2020)

nature pace layer · 2020–ongoing

lifespan: 300 yrs

Class card for LM-Dawn federated rewilding coalitions that re-couple human social systems to multi-species ecological substrate at bioregional scale. Distinguishing features versus MM national parks (fortress conservation) and DM environmental NGOs (rights-based advocacy): (1) motor is absent — no extrinsic telos of Progress drives operation; coupling with ecological feedback IS the operation; (2) substrate is corporeal + animate + social simultaneously — the animate substrate (wolves, beavers, salmon, prairie-dog, kelp) is not an output but an active co-constituent of machine function; (3) living competence in place — not inscribed-rule enforcement — is the primary output type; (4) land-back and indigenous customary tenure are first-class operational grammar (REL mode: oq-6-11). Cross-era position: heavy zombie_dependency on MM Westphalian property law; adapted_inheritance from MM national-park infrastructure; parasitic extraction against DM industrial agriculture's exhausted land base; mutualistic_coupling with DM citizen-science platforms (symmetric: rewilding feeds iNaturalist; iNaturalist feeds rewilding decisions). All quantitative state-variable values are [EXTRAP]; framing is [CANON] per Wave-0 LM definitions.

Machine type

corporeal

Plasticity

plastic

Substrate

corporeal animate social

Wave source

phase-1-hand-author-lm-gauntlet-2026-05-25

Inputs

degraded_industrial_land
keystone_species_reintroductions
indigenous_and_local_ecological_knowledge
citizen_science_sensor_streams

Outputs

re_coupled_ecological_function
living_competence_in_place
redrawn_tenure_arrangements

Landscape pressures

climate_biome_collapse_pressure (85% intensity)
post_carbon_land_reallocation_pressure (65% intensity)
indigenous_sovereignty_resurgence (55% intensity)

Intra-era couplings

mutualistic_coupling machine:indigenous-land-back-2014 · 0.75
complements machine:bioregional-governance-2024 · 0.55 EXTRAP

Cross-era couplings

parasitic_extraction machine:industrial-agriculture-1850 · 0.65
adapted_inheritance machine:national-park-1872 · 0.70
mutualistic_coupling machine:citizen-science-platforms-dm-2010 · 0.60
zombie_dependency machine:property-law-westphalian-1648 · 0.55 EXTRAP

State variables

rewilding_fraction

0.32

capture_resistance_index

0.62

liveness_temporal_coupling

0.60

new_nature_density

0.30

proletarianization_risk

0.20

machine_lifespan

300

regime

chaotic

CANON

gravitational_weight

0.20

EXTRAP

Phase snapshots

LM-Dawn2020–2030chaotic

LM-Dawn2050–2060chaotic

Notable instances

Cascadia Rewilding Network (2020) — Beaver-restoration, salmon-habitat recovery, prairie reintroduction across Pacific Northwest bioregion. Strongest cross-…
European Rewilding Network (Rewilding Europe) (2011) — Cross-border bison/wolf/wolverine/lynx/beaver reintroduction; legal-coordination experimentation across EU jurisdictions…
Half-Earth Project (2016) — Wilson-framed planetary-scale rewilding aspiration (50% land/sea protected by 2050). Partial-instance: more aspirational…
Indigenous-led Land Restoration Networks (2014) — Standing Rock onward; numerous indigenous-led land-restoration initiatives (Yukon to Amazon to Australia). promotion_can…

Sources

Rao (2024). World Machines — civilizational-era framing
Wave-0 (2026). world-machines-eras findings.md (LM definitions)
Monbiot (2013). Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea, and Human Life
Wilson (2016). Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life
Tsing (2015). The Mushroom at the End of the World
Estes (2019). Our History Is the Future