Tuesday, October 26, 2010

wildlife road crossing pathways and culverts must be expanded if wolves and other predators to be with us into the forever--sad story below of how tough it is for wild animals to make it safely across busy roads

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A wolf named Delinda Photographer John E. Marriott followed a gray wolf pack in the Bow Valley for over a year and learned a touching less...
Monday, October 25, 2010

USA/Canada cross-border Lynx studies ongoing to find ways to preserve and expand the "big pawed" cats range as warming and human caused fragmentation making it harder and harder for it to make a living

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Lynx don't care about the line between Ontario and Minnesota, and researchers on both sides are starting to pay attention. By Cheryl Ly...

Graduate student Cindy DeMaria's eastern coyote survey for a course she is taking in School..............take 3 minutes and complete for her please

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Sunday, October 24, 2010

In 18th Century Pennsylvania, evidence shows that Bison did occupy parts of the State................some good historical quotations from frontiersmen, soldiers and naturalists recounting their observations of the Keystone States fauna

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History of Buffalo in Pennsylvania     Van Wagner Karl Shellenberger The historical presence of buffalo, Bison bison , in Pennsylvania has ...
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An interesting visual and descriptive insight into Jedediah Smith, one of the great Mountain Men trappers who witnessed and experienced the zenith of the Rocky Mtn fur trade 1820-1840--great descriptions of beaver pelts secured and an acknowledgement that the Rockies was "darn near trapped out" by 1840

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  Jedediah Smith and America's Western Expansion and Exploration by O. Ned Eddins Jedediah Strong Smith was born in the Susquehanna ...

The type of effort and compassion in the attached SWIMMING POOL RESCUE is what we have to hope us human animals can eventually begin to display toward all of our animal cousins, both predator and prey

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Saturday, October 23, 2010

A brief history of Bounties paid to residents of New York State for doing in Predators and other "varmints"is reflective of the mentality that existed in the first 400 years of the American experience---bounties still exist in certain States................in 1802, land cost $2.00 per acre in New York State................Killing a wolf in Chenango County, NY fetched you $60 and a Cougar $75................You could buy a 675 acre farm if you killed 10 wolves and 10 cougars.................pretty good incentive to wipe out our top-of-the-foodchain Carnivores.................What sucks is that this mentality is alive and well in a still too large segment of the American, Canadian, Mexcan population

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B Y R O B E R T W. A R N O L D I I I archives around NewYork New York's settlers regarded wild animals as either food or foe and exte...

1902-1930 geographic bounty records of wolf and cougar kills in Montana.............does this early 20th century snapshot accurately portray where wolves and cougars were historically found circa AD 1500 when vast buffalo herds occupied the State? Please remember that even A.D.1800-1805 Lewis & Clark observations of Wolves in Eastern Montana(but no mention West of Continental Divide) does not take into account 300 years of Indians using horses(secured from the Spanish Conquistodors) and European impact on the land(while Lewis and Clark were the first to diary account this part of North America, Spanish colonization and influence as well as French trapper influence had impacts on how the tribes hunted, viewed each other and how their evolving hunting patterns impacted wildlife).....How wolves and cougars were impacted by the gradual shrinkage of the buffalo herds in terms of revised population distribution across the landscape can only be conjectured and not stated in absolutes................the historical distribution of our predators and their prey is a cornerstone interest of this blog and we will continue to pursue our investigations at every opportunity.

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* , Genevieve M. Nesslage, Brian A. Maurer Abstract Bounty records from Montana (1902–1930) were used to better understand spatial and temp...