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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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Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Hope yet for Cougars East of the Mississippi and North of Florida

State releases photo of cougar in Upper Peninsula

Last Michigan cougar sighting was over 100 years ago


The Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Environment released the photo Monday night.
The agency says "although the image is blurred, the photo is consistent with a cougar."
A trail camera snapped the photo May 26 near Wallace in the central Upper Peninsula, about 15 miles north of Marinette, Wis.
Cougars are also known as mountain lions. The were native to Michigan, but the last known wild cougar in Michigan was killed near Newberry in 1906.
In the past two years, five sets of cougar tracks and two photos have been confirmed in Schoolcraft, Delta, Chippewa, Marquette and Menominee counties.

This May 26, 2010, photo released by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Environment shows an image of a wild cougar that was taken by a trail camera near Wallace in Michigan's remote Upper Peninsula, about 15 miles north of Marinette, Wis. Also known as mountain lions, the large cats long were thought extinct in Michigan. The last known cougar was killed in 1906 near Newberry. (MDNRE/ AP Photo)  

 CLICK LINK BELOW TO SEE PICTURE OF THE COUGAR

http://www.freep.com/article/20100622/NEWS06/100622015/1319/State-releases-photo-of-cougar-in-the-UP

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