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    It is not the case that Experiences in rewilded landscapes are therefore encounters with an artifact, not with wild nature as philosophically distinct from culture.

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    • 1.Once released, rewilded organisms operate by natural selection and ecological processes indifferent to human intentions, making outcomes genuinely non-artificial.
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    • 2.Initial human intervention doesn't negate wildness; agriculture is cultural but rain falling on crops remains natural. Rewilding's wildness emerges post-intervention.
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    • 3.The claim conflates ontological status (what something is) with epistemological access (how we know it)—human interpretation doesn't make nature itself cultural.
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    • 1.Rewilding involves human intentional design choices (species selection, habitat engineering), making outcomes cultural products rather than natural emergence.
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    • 2.The concept of 'wild nature' independent of culture is philosophically incoherent—all nature is interpreted through human frameworks of meaning.
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    • 3.Rewilded landscapes are managed within predetermined human goals, distinguishing them from self-determining ecosystems beyond human intention.
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