My friends and President/Co President of COUGAR REWILDING, Chris Spatz and John Laundre recently penned a "call-to-arms" to the USFW folks to map a re-wilding plan for the Cougar East of the Mississippi.................With White Tail Deer having created biological deserts in most of the East Coast greenery one travels through from Maine to Mississippi and from Virginia to Indiana, it is time to put Cougars and Wolves back on the ground to restore the vitality of our Eastern Woodlands........These woods seem recovered from their multiple cut-downs and farming periods 1600-1920, but the prolific return of deer over the past 100 years in densities well above the 6 to 10 per square mile that existed at the time of colonization has all but stopped the majority of native tree and shrub seedlings from maturing into adolescent stage and beyond...........Our existing overstory 100 plus year old trees have no children and grandchildren waiting to replace them...............In New York State alone, to reduce the current deer density of 20 per square mile to 12 per sq mile would require hunters doubling their current annual take from 220,000 to 440,000...............That is not happening anytime soon!...............Cougars and Wolves supplementing Black Bears, Wolves and Bobcats(and a few lynx in Maine) to the rescue of our woodlands...........to the rescue of optimum diversity in the remaining forested regions of Americas first "Wilderness", the Eastern Woodland Forest

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