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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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Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Our friend, Frank Vincenti heads up the WILD DOG FOUNDATION in the the greater New York City region..........Frank has made it his duty to come out of his Barber Shop every day and go out and preach the benefits of man/coyote co-existence and tolerance to New Yorkers.................Vincenti is also currently trying to protect the few remaining Coyotes who have prospected as far east as La Guardia Airport in Queens, the jumping off point in the Coyotes quest to eventually colonize their final unconquered North American turf, Long Island............."Frank started his advocacy organization, Wild Dog Foundation, shortly after the first coyote sighting in The Bronx in 1995"................"Chris Nagy, the director of the Gotham(NYC) Coyote Study is grateful for the help in researching the more than 20 Coyotes that call the 5 boroughs of NYC home".................. “I’ve studied urban wildlife for a while, and the animals are the easiest part — it’s the humans that are the tricky part"............ I’m glad he’s(Vincenti) around"

http://nypost.com/2017/01/01/long-island-barber-howls-at-local-coyotes-to-save-them

Long Island barber howls at local coyotes to save them














When Frank Vincenti heard the sound of a coyote howling on the night of Nov. 7, he knew his efforts had failed.
Staked out in his car at a baseball field about 100 feet away, Vincenti — a hobbyist wildlife tracker — had been monitoring the coyote pack, which had taken up residence near an off-site parking lot for La Guardia Airport employees over the summer. But the lone animal’s cry was worrisome. “I could hear the trauma on the father’s voice,” said Vincenti, 47. “He was totally despondent. I had never heard him vocalize like that.”
Indeed, five of the dogs had been “euthanized to help keep airport travelers, workers and nearby residents safe after the coyotes became acclimated to humans, increasing the possibility of an attack,” according to the Port Authority, which authorized the action.
Vincenti, a Mineola, LI, barber, was devastated by the setback in his uphill battle to convince people to peacefully coexist with coyotes — a fight that pits him against city residents who believe their pets, kids and sense of safety are threatened by urban wildlife.
As the animal’s populations have grown upstate, packs have been forced to look for new territory farther south. Experts estimate there are more than 20 coyotes in NYC, and they’ve been spotted from Central Park to Battery Park City, Chelsea to a rooftop in Long Island City. (The only borough yet to have a sighting is Brooklyn.)

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A coyote in a Queens cemetery.Paul Martinka

Vincenti started his advocacy organization, Wild Dog Foundation, shortly after the first coyote sighting in The Bronx in 1995. “I’ve just had this strange attraction to [wild dogs] since I was young, and I feel like that’s where I’m relevant now,” he said.
Through his Facebook page and library lectures, Vincenti hopes to prevent euthanization by educating the public.
Chris Nagy, the director of research at the Mianus River Gorge conservation group, is grateful for the help.
“I’ve studied urban wildlife for a while, and the animals are the easiest part — it’s the humans that are the tricky part,” Nagy said. “[Vincenti] is working on that angle, while I get to study these animals, so I’m glad he’s around.”
Most evenings, Vincenti leaves his barber shop — a 95-year-old institution that’s been in the family since his great-grandfather opened it — and drives to places where he’s heard there are coyotes either from community tips, media reports or his wildlife-expert friends. Then he parks and waits for the dogs, so he can watch them.
Weeks before the La Guardia pack was euthanized, Vincenti shared a moment with the animals. While the adult coyotes were away foraging, he let out his best howl.
“Five minutes later [the pups] tumbled out, expecting me to regurgitate into their mouths,” he said. “I think they were disappointed to see this guy looking all excited to see them.” (Vincenti and a Post photographer spotted a couple more coyotes roaming near a La Guardia employee parking lot over Christmas.)

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