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LMDawnEXTRAPclass card

Rewilding Project Network (class)

nature pace layer · 2000–ongoing

lifespan: 300 yrs

Class card for large-scale ecological restoration projects operating as a coordinated network form in LM-Dawn (~2000–present). Canonical instances: Rewilding Europe (2011), Pleistocene Park (Russia, Yakutia; Zimov 1996+), Tompkins Conservation (Patagonia + Iberá; 1990s+), Gonarezhou Restoration Initiative (Zimbabwe + FZS), Knepp Estate (UK; Tree 2018), Yellowstone-to-Yukon (Y2Y; 1993+), American Prairie Foundation (Great Plains buffalo). Distinguishing features: (1) corporeal + animate substrate — keystone species (wolves, beavers, bison, prairie-dogs, kelp, salmon) are co-constituents of machine function, not merely outputs; (2) motor is absent — no extrinsic telos of Progress drives operation; ecological feedback IS the operation; (3) pace_layer = nature — the machine operates on the slowest Brand pace layer, canonical for LM-Dawn; (4) land is heavy — rewilding requires physical land tenure, biomass, and infrastructure, making this a heavy machine despite its LM classification. Inputs: conservation finance, land access, keystone species for reintroduction, ecological knowledge. Outputs: restored ecosystem services, rewilding_fraction signal, living competence in place, capture_resistance_index contribution [EXTRAP]. Primary output signal: rewilding_fraction (Wave 0 LM core state variable), tracing from ~0.001 globally (1990) to ~0.03 (2026) [EXTRAP-metric]. Canonical reverse-substrate-jump per SYNTHESIS §10.3: DM-incorporeal conservation-science substrate → LM-corporeal+animate rewilding substrate. [CANON-concept; EXTRAP-metric; EXTRAP-LM-classification]

Machine type

corporeal

Plasticity

plastic

Substrate

animate inanimate

Wave source

wave-6-cross-era-coupling-typology-stub4

Inputs

  • conservation_finance
  • land_access_and_tenure
  • keystone_species_reintroductions
  • conservation_science_knowledge_base

Outputs

  • rewilding_fraction_global
  • restored_ecosystem_services
  • capture_resistance_index_contribution

Landscape pressures

  • biodiversity_collapse_pressure (85% intensity)
  • eu_nature_restoration_regulation_2024 (60% intensity)
  • indigenous_land_rights_resurgence (55% intensity)

Intra-era couplings

  • co_constitutive machine:bioregional-governance-2024 · 0.55 EXTRAP
  • mutualistic_coupling machine:indigenous-land-back-2014 · 0.70 EXTRAP

Cross-era couplings

  • zombie_dependency machine:nation-state-land-registry-class · 0.70 EXTRAP
  • adapted_inheritance machine:conservation-science-class · 0.75 EXTRAP
  • substrate_provision Post-Humboldtian Research University (1810) · 0.80
  • parasitic_extraction machine:industrial-agriculture-mm · 0.60 EXTRAP

State variables

rewilding_fraction
0.03
capture_resistance_index
0.65
EXTRAP
liveness_temporal_coupling
0.85
EXTRAP
argument_of_progress_adoption
0.75
EXTRAP
delanda_territorialization
0.40
EXTRAP
proletarianization_risk
0.25
EXTRAP
gravitational_weight
0.25
EXTRAP

Phase snapshots

LM-Dawn2000–2015complex
LM-Dawn2015–2026complex

Notable instances

  • Bioregional Rewilding Initiative (2020) — CANONICAL INSTANCE on disk (2020) — ON DISK canonical LM exemplar. This is the instance counterpart to this CLASS card. bioregional-rewilding-2020 should ca…
  • Rewilding Europe (2011) (2011) — Cross-border bison/wolf/wolverine/lynx/beaver reintroduction; legal coordination across EU jurisdictions. Founded 2011 b…
  • Pleistocene Park (Yakutia, Russia; Zimov 1996+) (1996) — Sergey Zimov's Yakutia steppe-recreation project. Bison, horses, musk ox reintroductions to recreate Pleistocene mammoth…
  • Tompkins Conservation (Patagonia + Iberá) (1992) — Doug + Kris Tompkins Foundation; Argentine/Chilean national park land donations. Jaguar reintroduction Iberá wetlands 20…
  • Gonarezhou Restoration Initiative (Zimbabwe + FZS) (2017) — Frankfurt Zoological Society + Zimbabwe Parks. Community-based wildlife management + restoration; African elephant + lio…
  • Knepp Estate (UK; Tree 2018) (2001) — Isabella Tree's Knepp rewilding farm (West Sussex, England). First large-scale lowland rewilding in UK; Tree's Wilding 2…
  • Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative (Y2Y; 1993+) (1993) — Transboundary wildlife corridor 3200 km from Yellowstone to Yukon. Grizzly bear, wolverine, wolf connectivity. promotion…

Sources

  • Wave-6 (2026). cross-era-coupling-typology findings.md Stub 4 (lines 239-249)
  • Soulé and Noss (1998). Rewilding and Biodiversity (Wild Earth)
  • Monbiot (2013). Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea, and Human Life
  • Tree (2018). Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm
  • Wilson (2016). Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life
  • Rao (2024). World Machines — civilizational-era framing