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Grizzly bears, black bears, wolves, coyotes, cougars/ mountain lions,bobcats, wolverines, lynx, foxes, fishers and martens are the suite of carnivores that originally inhabited North America after the Pleistocene extinctions. This site invites research, commentary, point/counterpoint on that suite of native animals (predator and prey) that inhabited The Americas circa 1500-at the initial point of European exploration and subsequent colonization. Landscape ecology, journal accounts of explorers and frontiersmen, genetic evaluations of museum animals, peer reviewed 20th and 21st century research on various aspects of our "Wild America" as well as subjective commentary from expert and layman alike. All of the above being revealed and discussed with the underlying goal of one day seeing our Continent rewilded.....Where big enough swaths of open space exist with connective corridors to other large forest, meadow, mountain, valley, prairie, desert and chaparral wildlands.....Thereby enabling all of our historic fauna, including man, to live in a sustainable and healthy environment. - Blogger Rick

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Thursday, March 25, 2010

Catskill Mountain coyotes are truly COYWOLVES

My friend Frank Carbone lives in the Southern Catskill Mountains in New York State. Frank has trail cameras set up on his property and is constantly recording the wildlife on his property. As Massachusetts Biologist Jon Way calls them..............Eastern Coyotes are truly COYWOLVES.............a mix and hybridization of our Eastern Wolf(C.lycayon) and Western Coyote(C. latrans)...............Larger in size by a good 10 pounds than coyotes found in the Midwest and Western States and truly wolf looking in appearance and "swagger"...............sometimes packing up and becoming an efficient predator of deer(fawns as well as adults). Take a look at Frank's outstanding pictures that his cameras recently caught of the top dog in the East.................................COYWOLVES!

click here to view the pictures(u need to follow the instructions on Franks page and click his "slideshow" icon

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