| Summary: | ".In using examples both from Northern Norway and North America, the paper crosses boundaries by using modernization processes in agriculture and animal husbandry and corresponding ecological changes as variables in order to explain political processes: Increased political demands for economic efficiency and rationalization in animal husbandry has resulted in more extensive forms of grazing large numbers of animals on high altitude pastures. State subsidized breeding programs have resulted in heavier animals with higher grazing efficiency and weaker flock affinity. Changes in forestry patterns and in cattle grazing in village forests have changed a previously open cultural lowland landscape into a denser, reforested landscape. This has together with a general rural depopulation created improved opportunities for herbivores like roe-deer, deer and moose, both in their traditional areas and by migration to new areas. Following this expansion of wild herbivores there has also been a natural expansion of their accompanying predators, especially of lynx following the roe-deer."
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