Thursday, November 25, 2010

We can help fight White -Nose syndrome that is killing Bats by telling The Nature Conservancy(see below) to build an artifical cave shelter in Tennessee

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________________________________ From: Bat Conservation International [ newsletter@batcatalog.com ] Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 ...

The blonde Eastern coyote caught on webcam in Harriman State Park, just South of West Point Military Acadamy and North of the NewJersy/NY State Line

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Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Harriman State Park in Southeastern New York State just North of the New Jersey Border and just South of West Point Military Academy---the Eastern Coyote in all of it's glory reigns!!!!!

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From: Geoff Welch Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2010 9:35 AM To: hudson-valley-environment@npogroups.org Subject: [HudsonValley] Coyote i...
Tuesday, November 23, 2010

My friend George Wuerthner makes a compelling case that we need to both contain sprawl with effective zoning and public/private purchase of open space as well as limiting farming and ranching to those regions of the Country that have adequate climates and water supplies to optimize production without land and wildlife destruction being the outcome

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  Condos or Cows? Neither! George Wuerthner Throughout the country there is a growing fear that subdivisions and sprawl will eliminate o...

Which is more damaging to our landscape.......ranching and farming or sprawl? George Wuerthner has written extensively on this topic and in the Posting below and in the 1st Post published today, makes a strong case that we should not stop one or the other.........But that we must mitigate both to accomplish our re-wilding objectives...........That in fact ranching/farming done either without regard for the health of the land or practiced in parts of the USA that are both unsuited climate and waterwise should cease ...............That we should enact the proper zoning to prevent sprawl is a must..........read our email conversation below and George's above posted essay and you will have a new appreciation for the problem that we face in combating wild land degradation and how we might go about changing course and take the steps needed to restore wild lands and wild creatures

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From : George Wuerthner < gwuerthner@gmail.com > To : Meril, Rick Sent : Tue Nov 23 06:58:13 2010 Subject : Re: Ranchers and open...
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Monday, November 22, 2010

Our friend George Wuerthner expanding upon some of his previous writings on how the Ranching Community seeks government handouts while claiming to be anti-big Government............I am so empathetic ot George's point-of-view and yet I still consider that maybe the public lands(for grazing cattle) and other "goodies" we give the Ranchers is justified in some way so as to keep large swaths of land intact and not subdivided into Ranchettes and Western Suburbia...............The $$ we spend on Wildlife Services(predator control) would be better spent on helping the Ranchers to pen their flocks/herds...............helping them learn how to dispose of waste so as to not attract the wolves, coyotes, bears and cougars.................in essence...........you(Ranchers) get our dime(assistance) if you keep the land healthy and allow all living things including predators to live free and thrive

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Do ranchers have a right to predator free landscape? By George Wuerthner LIVESTOCK AND PREDATORS One of the unquestioned and unspok...

50 Ocelots left in the USA....................We need a bigger critical habitat zone down in South Texas and surrounding border States to allow this little predator to build itself back up to sustainable levels

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Refuge officials hoping to find some new ocelots The Associated Press   HARLINGEN — Biologists at a far South Texas wildlife refuge are hopi...

Our friend Frank Carbone has started a new wildlife group at Yahoo Groups......... Wild Ursids, Felids and Canids - WUFCAN @ Yahoo!......join today please

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From : Frank Carbone Jr. < forthebirds39@verizon.net > To : EML Group < eastern_mountain_lion@yahoogroups.com >; Hudson Valley...
Sunday, November 21, 2010

Our friend, Biologist Jacqueline Frair at the State University of New York, reiterating and reverifying characteristics of the Eastern Coyote that we have expounded on numerous times on this blog. Dr. Frair is in concert with fellow researchers, Jon Way, Roland Kays, Linda Rutledge, Matt Gompper, Brent Patterson, Brad White, Tyler Wheeldon and Paul Wilson who have also explained to us the difference in size and other characteristics that distinguish the Eastern Coyote from it's Western cousin

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By CRAIG FREILICH Wildlife experts say that the "robust" population of coyotes in the Greater Canton-Potsdam Area(New York) is at...

Cougars, like all animals who kill to eat(we humans included), take the easiest to catch prey as the season dictates

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Seasonal Influences Help Guide Cougar Prey Selection ScienceDaily — As predators, cougars tend to select prey animals that are weaker and ea...

Pioneer Wolves trying to get a toe-hold in Missouri..Looks like a 2nd Male had wandered into the State before getting shot by a hunter

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Wild wolves in Missouri? By BRENT FRAZEE The Kansas City Star When Andrew Protenic looks back on the 2010 Missouri deer season, he'll ha...
Saturday, November 20, 2010

YOU NEED A "ROAD MAP" AND A LEGAL DICTIONARY TO DECIPHER THE CONFLICTING JUDICIAL RULINGS THAT MIGHT ULTIMATELY IMPACT OUR NORTHERN ROCKIES WOLF POPULATION............YOU WOULD THINK THAT 300 MILLION WOLVES (OUR CURRENT USA HUMAN POPULATION) HAVE OVERRUN THE UNITED STATES........... THE HYSTERIA THAT WESTERN RANCHERS AND THEIR "BOUGHT AND PAID" POLITICIANS EXHIBIT AS THEY RAIL AGAINST WOLVES IS SICKENING TO THIS BLOGGER..........A TRULY SAD COMMENTARY ON HOW BACKWARD THINKING AND ACTING WE ARE AS A SPECIES.............AND HOW CONTRADICTORY IT IS TO HEAR FROM THESE SAME FOLKS ABOUT HOW WE HAVE TO ADHERE TO"RIGHT TO LIFE"(FOR HUMANS) AND FAMILY VALUES(FOR HUMANS)..............HOW DO YOU CHEER FOR VIRTUAL WOLF ERADICATION HAVING ACCESS TO THE KNOWLEDGE THAT WE HAVE ACCUMULATED OVER 300 YEARS ABOUT HOW WRONG PREDATOR ERADICATION IS?.............ARE WE HUMAN PREDATORS THE ONLY GENUS OF CREATURE THAT HAS "THE RIGHT TO LIFE"??????

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Federal judge rules for Wyo. in wolf lawsuit By BEN NEARY, Associated Press   CHEYENNE — A federal judge on Thursday ordered the U.S. Fis...

AS WE ALWAYS REINFORCE, PROPER GARBAGE DISPOSAL TRUMPS HUMAN CULLING OF BEARS AS THE KEY TO OPTIMUM PEOPLE/BEAR COEXISTANCE

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Research shows bear complaints are decreasing   For months we have been hearing that human/black bear encounters and complaints are steadily...

Massachusetts has about 1000 Moose roaming it's woodlands.................They are also occupying Southern New England in Connecticut and New York..........We have asked this question before..............With warming temps, how are New England Moose expanding their range Southward and multiplying when the same warming conditions(and heightened tick infestations) are ravaging the Moose Population of the Great Lake States and adjacent Canada?...............Would love to hear opinions and facts from some of our biologist blog readers

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Moose, coyotes reported in Saugus An adult bull (male) Moose in Saugus, Massachusetts   Despite its fairly dense population Saugus boasts a...
Friday, November 19, 2010

I recently purchased Bill Krohn's recently published EARLY MAINE WILDLIFE and as the review below attests: It indeed is a treasure chest full of first hand historical accounts of the indigenous wildlife that occupied what is now the State of Maine from 1605 into the early 20th Century............I recommend it highly for anyone interested in the most complete to date compilation of the Wildlife of this region(yes there were wolves, cougars, bears, wolverines, fishers, marten, bobcats, caribou, etc, etc )..............A shout out to both Bill and Chris Hoving who are both friends of this blog............Well done Gents!!!!!

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Deirdre Fleming: A glimpse of Maine wildlife's olden days Aroostook County apparently had no white-tailed deer in 1850. click image t...

White Tail Deer breeding biology explained in easy-to-understand phrasiology by Vermont Fish& Wildlife Biologist John Buck......prolific they are,,,,hard to believe that they were killed off in our Eastern Woodlands by the mid to late 19th Century................and then restocked in the early 1900's..............the woods grew back.........Wolves and Cougars were absent...............the deer population skyrocketed .................and we now hope for wolf and cougar rewilding that in conjunction with black bears and coyotes will keep our forests rejenerating and our deer herds managed naturally---and our hunters will have to become really skilled(ultimately better hunters) under these hoped for conditions

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Buck Meets Doe by John Buck Illustration by Adelaide Tyrol One of the evolutionary adjustments whitetail deer have made is to reproduce ...

More commentary from USFW Eastern Cougar Biologist Mark McCollough on the status of Cougars(extirpated?) in Maine

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Do wild mountain lions live here? It's one of Maine's most enduring natural mysteries, and federal biologists are digging into deca...
Thursday, November 18, 2010

Our friend and Lead Cougar Biologist for the USFW Service out of Maine, Mark McCulloch cautions on the existance of a current Cougar population in New England................but acknowledges that there were "Lions" in the North East in Pre Colonial and Colonial times only to be extirpated when Colonists eliminated White Tail Deer and their forest cover from the Eastern Seaboard

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Franklin Biologist disputes cougar sightings By Terry Karkos, Staff Writer Warren Bryant, left, of Jay describes how he found what appeare...