Hettinger and Throop seem to say that nature can take care of itself without the influence of humans and that when we try to fix the mistakes that we have made the damage just seems to intensify. To this I would agree with. The environment is a self regulating system and it is too risky to try and help or aid the environment when there isn’t a need for it, because we can do more harm than good. Wildness is essential for restoring and maintaining natural systems because it lets the system exist in its wild state without humanities influence controlling it. When humans get rid of a species from an ecosystem and then try to restore the amount of the species as there was before they can often do more damage than repair. Since the absence of the wolves in Yellowstone has greatly impacted the environment and the other organisms that live there, would it really be helpful to disrupt the way that nature has compensated for the fact that there is no top predator like the wolves to keep things in check? I feel that the wolves should be able to reintroduce themselves and be able to find their own ways of supporting themselves and getting used to the environment without the aid of humans. This way, the environment can shape around the wolves, and the wolves will have a more natural impact on the environment. Besides, according to the authors, disturbance in the norm for many natural systems and ecosystems, do not tend to mature, but rather seem to take a step back when recovering from the trauma of the disturbance. An invading species can be an example of this theory, when the species disturbs the life of the other organisms living within the ecosystem that is functioning well. The authors also said that humans need to find a way of preserving the wild without it leading into a way that destroys it, but how exactly do we do this? I found I was trying to answer this question a lot during my time reading this text. I feel like the authors gave many examples of what exactly their ethic was toward the land, but not as many for how to put these ideas into actions. I think that if we realize what is going on in Yellowstone and more people are open to the idea of letting nature be on its own without human aid, that we can find a way to be sustainable without having to cut down on valuable lands and ecosystems that are trying just as hard to sustain themselves.