Sunday, December 26, 2010

Ironic that declaring an animal Endangered can result in lack of protection because of business stiffening it's back and fighting tooth and nail to prevent rules and restrictions that could cut into their profits...............If ever one of our native carnivores merited protection, it is the Wolverine................We hope Colorado goes ahead with it's restoration efforts!

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Potential endangered status threatens U.S. effort to bring back the wolverine  By Randy Boswell   After the resounding success of a decade-l...
Saturday, December 25, 2010

Marcelllus Shale Gas Drilling to ruin Pennsylvania back Country forever???..........Are humans, bears, coyotes, bobcats and the existing animal suite about to be blown up??? Moratorium like the one in NY to be instituted in the Keystone State?

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Power and justice By PETER COMSTOCK " Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization ...

The great Animal Rights Activist and Writer, Marc Bekoff asking all of us to do more than just write and read about animal rights and welfare................but to take action to stop the abuse that is heaped upon both our wild and domestic animal cousins

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Do animals think and feel? by Marc Bekoff   Cruelty can't stand the spotlight: Ending animal abuse is merely a click away so let's m...

Wisconsin Historical Images - Buffalo Hunt, White Wolves Attacking a Buffalo Bull.............where there were buffalo, elk, moose, deer and pronghorn..............there were wolves to be found stalking them

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Title: Buffalo Hunt, White Wolves Attacking a Buffalo Bull Description: A buffalo surrounded by wolves (Plate 10). "There are severa...
Friday, December 24, 2010

Jesuit Priest, Jacques Marquette and Fur Trader Louis Joliet are the first Europeans to push into the Mississippi Basin from Huron and Iroquois lands in the Great Lakes.....They navigate into Minnesota and on down thru Illinois and traverse a great length of the "Big Muddy"(Mississippi River).......... observing and recording "Serenghetti-like" wildlife throughout...................Another teriffic first hand account of mid 17th Century America.......................Brings a smile to my face to read and absorb these "picture-images" of what our great Country looked like in front of Christmas 1673-------Let me wish all of you a Merry Christmas and a happy holiday week leading into the New Year..............Thanks for coming to the blog..................thanks for being there day in and day out as we fully review what Wild America was ............what Wild America is now..................and what re-wilding might have Wild America look like in the years ahead--blogger Rick

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Marquette & Joliet, 1673 On a May day more than 300 years ago, two unlikely explorers set out on a four-month voyage that carried them t...

California Dept of Fish and Game citing the best peer reviewed Science and reiterating how to co-exist with coyotes-------keep em wary,,,do not feed them or provide water.............dispose of garbage carefully........Shooting, trapping and poisoning coyotes is not how you minimize conflicts with them...........coyotes rapidly re-fill vacancies where human instituted culling has occured............. Often two new coyote families take up residence on the land that had previously only supported one family............In these situations, Coyotes often birth larger broods of pups(up to 9)....................You then have younger, less experienced and more animals in your neighborhood who will take more chances around us humans and ultimately we often end up with bigger problems than previously.......As one Vermont farmer put it................."I leave em alone,,,,,,,,,,they get to know my boundaries and we keep problems to a minimum"

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Fish and Game Q&A: What to do with pesky coyotes? California depart tment of Fish and Game seeking to keep hunters and anglers informed...

December thru March during the height of the Deer Rut is the most vulnerable time for male deer as they are crazed with lust and not their normal hyper-vigilant selves...............They often are crossing great distances in pursuit of females.............And in these long distance travels in unfamiliar territory, they are most vulnerable to both human and other animal predators ..............Highlights from the Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Institute Study(South Texas) are for you to digest below..........

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White-tailed Deer Buck Movements During the Rut By David G. Hewitt The rut can be a particularly exciting time to be afield. Bucks and bulls...
Thursday, December 23, 2010

16 of the 23 Florida Cougars killed in 2010 were by automobiles......................We need better and more extensive animal road crossing protections in Florida...............We need more land for Cougars in Florida to roam unharrassed............and finally, based on the burgeoning human population of the Sunshine State, the time likely has arrived for a % of the Florida CAT population to be transplanted and "RE-WILDED" in the Smokies, other suitable Appalacian and Gulf Coast State locales

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Third dead panther in five days found in Eastern Collier County NAPLES — A female panther was found dead today on agricultural land north o...

Fire is an important variable in the ability of Bighorn Sheep in California to detect and evade Mountain Lions and other Predators.......In the absence of periodic fire, evergreen chaparral foilage grows so thick and dense that it blocks Bighorn's line-of-sight and puts the SHEEP in harms way

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Implications of Fire History for Conserving Bighorn Sheep By Vernon C. Bleich Steep, rocky terrain is widely recognized as an important ...

Minnesota blogger Jeanne Ingalls plea to maintain the integrity of the Great Lakes Wolf population and not to delist and destroy the expanded population that has builit itself back up over a 50 year period--ties in to yesterdays post revealing that the Center for Biological Diversity is seeking to have the Federal Government develop a National Wolf recovery plan for the entire USA including the Appalachians, New England, the Great Plains and the Southern Rockies and Pacific Coast States....................Again, this bog endorses based on National Security issues and biological diversity being essential to the well being of future populations of all animals including us humans!

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Wolves should remain a protected species Once again we are seeing a push to delist the wolves in Minnesota. This time the campaign is being ...
Wednesday, December 22, 2010

With a pioneering Wolverine successfully making a living in Colorado for the first time in a Century, FWS considering releasing 30 more animals to create a viable breeding population......Colorado has had success reintroducing the Lynx and it 's geographic positioning in the West definitely makes it a candidate for establishing critical habitat for our "Bear-Cat" if Endangered Species status is finally provided this rarest of USA predators

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Wolverine reintroduction in Colorado? Possible protected status has ski group wary By Bruce Finley the denver post The Denver Post ENLARGE...

THE FIRST CONGRESSINAL ATTEMPT TO REMOVE WOLVES FROM ENDANGERED SPECIES CONSIDERATION(NOW OR ANYTIME IN THE FUTURE) FAILED TO PASS--TWO MORE BILLS ARE TRYING TO GET TO THE FLOOR FOR CONSIDERATION IN THE NEW CONGRESSIONAL TERM STARTING IN 2011.......................THE CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY IS COMBATING THIS BY SEEKING FOR THE FED GOVERNMENT TO RESTORE WOLVES ACROSS THE USA(NOT JUST THE WEST OR MIDWEST, BUT ENTIRE USA WITH A NATIONAL PLAN RATHER THAN A PIECEMEAL STATE BY STATE ENDEAVOR...................I COME OUT IN FAVOR OF THIS.................WHILE I DO NOT WANT THE FED UP MY "BEHIND" ON ALL ASPECTS OF MY LIFE, REWILDING AND ENHANCING BIODIVERSITY IN MY OPINION FALL UNDER NATIONAL DEFENSE OF THE USA...................THE HEALTHIER OUR LAND..............THE MORE SPECIES OF PLANT AND ANIMALS THAT WE PRESERVE AND PERPETUATE INTO THE FUTURE, THE MORE LIKELY WE HAVE THE GENETIC FOUNDATIONS TO DERIVE NEW MEDICINES, FOODSTUFFS AND TECHNOLOGIES NEEDED TO ADVANCE OUR QUALITY OF LIFE INTO THE MILLENIA AHEAD...............WAY TO GO CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY!!

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Utah bill to delist wolves fails in Senate The first of three U.S. Senate bills attempting to remove wolves from endangered species protec...

The Obama Administration cowardly refuses to overturn previous Bush ruling that pre-emPted the Polar Bear from Endangered Species Designation--bowing to Oil interests.............. The doublesepeak rationale below that the Feds use to rationalize this decision can make your head explode, it is so non-clear!

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Obama administration says polar bears are threatened not endangered   A polar bear rests with her cubs on pack ice in the Beaufort Sea in...
Tuesday, December 21, 2010

If an abundance of mature male Elk help ensure healthier offspring and allow younger males more time in to grow to maturity..............does this also correlate to it being wise to not cull adult male wolves, coyotes , bears and cougars?,,,,,,,,,,,,,,We know that human hunting and trapping result in fewer adults on the gound..........promotes juveniles to leadership roles before being ready to deal effectively................leads to aberrant behaviors with humans............perhaps less predator hunting seasons will reduce human/predator negative interactions by allowing younger males to grow to maturity......................allowing the predators to gain the wisdom they need to minimize conflicts

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Elk Reproduction Improved With Mature Bulls By David Hewitt - Boone and Crockett Club Professional Member Large, mature animals are symbol...

One more summary of wolf/bear interactions...............they try to avoid each other.............but both can kill the other as noted over the last few days of posting............Yellowstone interactions of the two species documented below

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Yellowstone National Park Potential Interactions Between Bears & Wolves With the reintroduction of gray wolves ( Ca...

The Wolf Conservation Center in South Salem, New York does teriffic work raising the awarenes of the Public regarding the role of the wolf in maintaining a healthy environment....... ...........as well as being a captive breeding Center for the endangered Mexican Wolf..........Another excellent Conservation Organization whose endeavors are akin to the International Wolf Center in Ely, Minn.

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Mission OF THE WOLF CONSERVATION CENTER IN SOUTH SALEM, NY Founded in 1999. The Wolf Conservation Center (WCC) is a 501c3 organization that ...
Monday, December 20, 2010

Some further information on how wolves and bears interact.............Lynn Rogers and I in further communication on her planned exhibit on this subject

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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Rick Meril < rick.meril@gmail.com > Date: Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 8:30 PM Subject: some fu...

Professor Emeritus of Environemental Science at the University of Calgary, Val Geist, reaching some very unfavorable conclusions(in my opinion) about the need for INTENSE PREDATOR CONTROL as the only way human animals and wolves, cougars and bears can co-exist on our planet................Professor Geist is learned and articulate and makes some provocative statements based on his interpretation of the facts...............He feels that most of his peer Scientists are living in a fairy tale world feeling that predators are not a threat to us................his claims resonate much of what layman ranchers, slob hunters and other anti predator groups are vocal about when they push ferociously for the minimum number of wolves, bears and cougars to exist in the USA.................This blog is here to examine all perspectives.............I am on the opposite end of the spectrum from Professor Geist but will continue to publish what he sends me on this subject..............Let us hear from all points of view and hopefully forge collaborations that will indeed see North Americia re-wilded with more than just the bare minimum number of animals of any given species.....................

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From: Meril, Rick To: 'kendulf@shaw.ca' < kendulf@shaw.ca > Sent: Mon Dec 20 09:42:08 2010 Subject: Re: welcome to...........