Sunday, September 25, 2011

PARKS CANADA has found that both Wolves and Elk are sensitive to human activity and avoided getting too near to trails that are used by more than 2 people an hour...........Elk took advantage of the adjacent trail habitat when human use was less, thus provideing them with some refuge from Wolves..............Similar findings have also come out of Yellowstone Park

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Where wolves fear to tread: elk share lightly used mountain park trails An elk is pictured in this undated handout photo, by the side of ...
Saturday, September 24, 2011

Nathalie Karvonen, Dir. of the TORONTO, CANADA WILDLIFE CENTER putting forth for Toronto citizens how to responsibly live with Coyotes and reinforcing that killing them only brings on larger litters from remaining breeding pairs..............

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Coyote is here to stay in Toronto Eric Riehl "When a coyote goes after a pet, he doesn't do so to be mean. He just simply doesn...

John Lutz of the EASTERN PUMA RESEARCH NETWORK AND I periodically have a lively debate about whether there are viable breeding populations of Cougars East of the Mississippi River.....John feels that there most certainly are Cougars existing in our Eastern States and Eastern Canada...............Passionate, purposeful and a long time citizen researcher of Cougars, John is convinced that State Wildlife Agencies are purposely misleading the Public on the existance of Cougars.............He claims to have seen black(color phase) cougars, jaguars and pleistocene era American Cheetahs and feels that they exist in North America from the Atlantic to Pacific ..............He is also confident and certain that the so-called "Dakota Cougar" that was killed this past Summer in Connecticut actually was born and wandered South into the USA from Canada.............His EASTERN PUMA RESEARCH NETWORK is at odds with COUGAR REWILDING and the COUGAR NETWORK who (as I do) conclude that there is not a breeding population of Cougars in the Eastern States outside of Florida at this time...........At the very most, esteemed Jaguar and "big cat" biologist Alan Rabinowitz hypothesizes that there might be some "released pets" that have from time to time found each other and mated across the landscape, accounting for periodic sightings of the Cats..............My take on John's position on Eastern Cougar existance is that if there are any Cats out there, they are not a functional population in terms of conducting their trophic function of tapping down the runaway deer herd that are currently denuding our forests.......... A gentlemen named Ben Shrader responded to one of John's articles with this commentary: "To perpetuate a myth of existence of cougars in the east for decades is a disgrace to the magnificent species. Yes, an occasional disperser or an escaped or released captive, but a breeding population, No way! Real cougars leave tracks, scat, and are photographed. Oh, the joy of a sensational story about a mythical shy critter that can exist among us undetected, but after 46 years of bashing game departments the fictional story is ending. For those who want to continue to believe these myths it is time to ask: “Where is the proof for scientific review? What is the truth?” Maybe someday it will come true if cougars are protected and allowed to disperse into the east or we have the ecological fortitude to reintroduce them. The truth is the east is missing an essential apex predator and as a result forests are in collapse from deer browsing while biodiversity of the whole region is suffering. The energy and thirst for mythical sensationalism can be better directed toward a real solution and that is for the protection and restoration of natural predators"

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Rick Sorry to tell you, but the EASTERN PUMA RESEARCH NETWORK is 100% OPPOSED to this idea of a cougar rewildingplan for the reintroductio...

Brooks Fahy at PREDATOR DEFENSE is teaming with FRIENDS OF ANIMALS on Friday, October 14 at the Montana State Capitol in Helena to protest the new State Management plan for Wolves which targets as many as 2/3 of the States Wolves to be killed during the hunting and trapping season which is in effect now...............They need your support!

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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Brooks Fahy < brooks@predatordefense.org > Date: Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 9:29 AM Subjec...

More information on the Wisconsin Deer Study that is underway: In the Eastern part of the State, excluding death by helicoper capture to tag the animals(which will cease going forward), 7 deer were killed by cars and 1 from starvation---no wolf,coyote, bear or bobcat caused predation!,,,,,,,,,,,,,In the Northern region of the study, excluding mortality caused by helicopter capture, 5 deer starved to death, 4 were taken by wolves, four lost their life to bobcats and 1 loss to coyotes and 3 from undetermined predation.............3 were killed by cars, 3 were illegally poached by people and two more were lost through unknown causes...................So despite the author highlighting the carnivore predation(which writers always seem to play up),,,,,,,,,,a significant number of deer deaths were attributed to humans...............and the hunting season has not started yet so even more archery, muzzle loader and rifle human predation to come over the next 3 or 4 months.............Bottom line is that the woods still have too many deer in them to reproduce properly and be as diverse as they should be................Cougars need to be added to the mix of limiting agents for deer and the wolves should continue to spread to the Southern tier of the State to up the deer control even further...............most of wisconsin has a range of 14 to 75 deer per square mile..............with Southeastern and Southwestern Counties harboring as many as 125 deer per square mile....................THIS IS INSANITY AND WE ARE LETTING DEER(BECAUSE OF HUNTER POLITICAL PRESSURE) EAT OUR FORESTS TO THE QUICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Two study areas in state produce varying deer data Paul A. Smith <p><p></body></p></p> Fall Deer Den...
Friday, September 23, 2011

British Columbia fishermen severely cut into Grizzly Bear foodstuffs this past Summer.............Salmon that does not make the grade for commercial markets tends not to be thrown back into the rivers in a condition that lets them continue to survive........1.4 million pounds of Chum Salmon died from injury upon being caught and then thrown back in stressed condition............Not only do the Griz lose an important foodstuff,,,,,,,,,,,but their recycling of the Salmon back into the environment(excrement/bones, etc) is interupted causing forests and meadows not to be fertilized as they have for eons by the Griz "fertilizer machine"

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By-catch Deprives Bears by Misty MacDuffee and Chris Genovali B ritish Columbia's coastal grizzly bears often have a hard time secur...

My friend Frank Carbone, living in the wilds of New York State, sent me this great pic of a bobcat scoring a Turkey meal..................The Bob looks like a "pivoting shortstop" turning a double play ball...........Talk about a "flexible flyer"!!!!

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Thursday, September 22, 2011

Oregon Biologists seeking to verify Cougar #'s in the State, now estimated at 5700..............The objective of this research is to determine.how many elk and deer they kill weekly is the goal of the Study(hunter centric study).............Interestingly, none of the 35 Cats that have been collard for this Study have killed any livestock...................They are doing the top-down trophic job very nicely............Of course,, never a mention by the State biologists on the fact that keeping the deer and elk herds trimmed is a good thing for the Oregon forests and meadows

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Dogs and biologists track collared cougars in northeast Oregon   Darren Clark Radio-collared cougars in northeast Oregon help biologists tra...

Michigan ignores "fair chase" and re-institutes BEAR BAITING in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan...........Where are the real hunters who enjoy the stalk and the chase...........rather than a pinball shooting gallery experience?

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Michigan hunters turn to food to attract big bucks ZACHARY REICHARD,   In this photo taken Sept. 7, 2011, bags of corn sold as deer feed ar...

Killing and Hunting as perceived and commented on by the OXFORD CETRE FOR ANIMAL ETHICS,,,,,,,,,Wildlife Services and State Hunting seasons taken to task

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Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics "So far as we know beasts are incapable either of sin or of virtue; therefore they can neither deserv...
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Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Our friend Linda McCracken is doing daily, detailed "CSI" investigative work seeking to prove the presence of Cougars in New Hampshire and the other New England States and New York........Linda is asking all Blog readers if they would be interested in contributing funds so that she can get DNA analysis of alleged Cougar scat that she has collected............$200 per analysis is the cost and Linda has 5 scat samples ready to turn over to the U.S Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Lab.............If interested, contact Linda at lmccracken2002@yahoo.com

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The Journal writings of English Explorer, Francis Moore, who explored Georgia during the 8 year period from 1732-1740.............Buffalo did exist in Georgia during this early colonial period..............wolves, bears, bobcats, Whooping Cranes, Turkeys, Alligators and rattlesnakes all called the region home in the early 18th Century

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Did you ever wonder how strange it must have been for foreigners when they saw the animals in North America for the first time? We have ...