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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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Monday, March 28, 2016

The Concho Valley region of Texas sits in the west-central part of state, significantly far removed from east Texas where Louisiana Black Bears have been recolonizing over the past few years.........The Bears have been absent from the Concho area for a good 100 years but seemingly are prospecting the region once again........... "One was killed along Centralia Draw in Reagan County in the early 1980s, and another in Menard County in 2009"............ "Also in 2009, one was seen in Glasscock County"............ "Several additional sightings and photographic evidence have come from Irion, Kerr and Kinney counties, apparently including a photograph from Irion County of a bear standing upright to feed at a deer feeder"................ "It is likely that black bears in and near the Concho Valley in recent years are from populations resident in the state of Coahuila in northern Mexico"............ "The bears there are of the race Ursus americanus amblycepa, the same as found in the Chisos Mountains of Big Bend National Park"........................The historical records kept by Explorers vividly document the impact Black Bears had upon their sighting..............."In 1684, Juan Dominguez de Mendoza led an expedition into West-Central Texas from Paso del Norte (El Paso) to the Colorado River"................................. "On March 16 at a site that Mendoza called San Clemente (probably near Menard on the San Saba River), his journal reports that he saw bears"................... "The Marques de Rubi inspected the Presidio de las Amarillas on the San Saba River near Menard in the summer of 1767"........................ "He continued his inspection tour on toward San Antonio de Bexar, and when just about 30 miles from Menard, he had the excitement of roping a bear".................................. "I would think bear roping to be a pretty dicey sport, but those Spaniards didn't lack for pluck"................................. "In December 1864, Kickapoo Indians of the famed Dove Creek battle, field-dressed bears on the Colorado River"........................ "And so it goes — historic anecdotes of bears in and near the Concho Valley in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries"

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Black bears are
 a past predator
 for the Concho
area


Contributed photo Illustration of a black bear by T.C. Maxwell.
 The bears are classified as carnivores, but they're basically omnivores.
Contributed photo Illustration of a black bear by T.C. Maxwell. The bears are classified as carnivores, but they're basically omnivores.















The Concho Valley
of Texas with San
Angelo it's largest City

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