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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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Sunday, July 25, 2010

Bat White Nose syndrome.................alert your Congressman


Dear BCI Member:

We urgently need your help! BCI is working to convince Congress to provide critically needed funds for solutions to White-nose Syndrome. This devastating disease has killed well over a million bats in just four years, and we are still unable to slow its spread across the continent. Please urge your Congressional representative to sign Representative Carol Shea-Porter's letter requesting $5 million in the 2011 federal budget to combat White-nose Syndrome.

Throughout the summer, we will call on you to take action during the long process of allocating money for the annual federal budget. Last May, Bat Conservation International, nearly 60 other conservation organizations, and a dozen scientists from across the country urged Congress to provide $5 million for the fight against White-nose Syndrome. I provided essential testimony to justify this request. Now, your representative needs to hear from you.

A sample letter is attached for your convenience. To contact your representative, go to https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml. Please feel free to tailor the letter to your style and to describe how much bats mean to you.

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