My Turn: We must protect what little wilderness we have left Published: 1/16/2021 6:15:04 AM Two seemingly unrelated incidents have me thinking lately about wildlife, and the future of it, in the Concord area. I read an article in the latest issue of the quarterly publication that a conservation organization I belong to publishes. That article, which cited data from Nature Conservancy studies, found that the vast majority of impacts from human recreation on wildlife are negative. One study found that an increase in mountain biking, hiking, and dog walking in the warmer months and skiing, fat biking, and snowshoeing in the winter had caused elk herds around major Rocky Mountain resort towns to dwindle almost to the point of extinction.