Thursday, May 24, 2012

Pumas looking to colonize Missouri are coming from Montana, Colorado and South Dakota...............No breeding poulation as of yet established in the "SHOW ME" State.............soon we hope that changes for the positive!

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Four Cougars Seen in Missouri Came from Three States. By Jim Low Jefferson City, Mo - infoZine - DNA test results show that fou...

So Maine is to Coyotes as Montana, Idaho and Wyoming are to Wolves----a terrible "geographic sink" where all alleged ranching, farming and hunting negative events are scapegoated upon our wild canids.........Up until forest clearing and the demise of wolves and pumas, northern Maine was never a prime deer region----Caribou and Moose were the hoofed browsers that the wolves and pumas fed on.................Bring back the historical fauna array,,,,,,,,,,,create the Maine Woods National Park and the revenue coffers of Maine will fill up at a far faster pace than relying on deer hunting

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Maine governor signs bills to rebuild deer herd Associated Press AUGUSTA, Maine — With hopes of rebuilding a deer herd that has shrun...

The Cabinet-Yaak Grizzly Bear poulation in northern Montana is being surveyed through bear hair collected from almost 800 scent-baited hair corrals and more than 1,200 unbaited, naturally occurring bear rubs such as trees, posts and poles that bears rub on. This information will be used to examine population and genetic health...........Right now, 40 Grizzlies are alleged to call this part of Montana home..........We also know that the Yaak population is just hanging on through the great writings from Rick Bass, who lives in this region.........Only a few hair follicles are needed to obtain a great deal of information about the bear that left the sample, such as species, individual identity, sex and potentially, its relationship to other bears.....

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New "Hair of the Bear" Study Launched to Estimate Grizzly Bear Population Suzanna Carrithers, USGS Bears in the fa...
Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Thumbs up for Don Mc Gowan, Senior Wildlife Biologist for the Georgia Dept of Ntl Resources who provides one of the more sane commentaries on the Coyotes inhabiting his home state: "it is not unusual to see coyotes in urban settings -- even in Atlanta -- and there's little cause for worry'. "There not really any cause for concern unless you have small pets -- cats, small dogs," said McGowan. "Other than that, there's really not much to be worried about. They tend not to bother people too much"....Unfortunately as we find almost everywhere in America, Coyotes can be hunted and trapped year round in Georgia without limit---When is Mr. McGowan going to go the next level of coexistance philosophy and push for a modest hunting and trapping season that does not include January-August--mating and pup rearing season in Georgia?.

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Georgia DNR: Coyote sightings no cause for alarm                   alice queen -rockdalecitizen.com CONYERS -- Several coyot...

Yes urban dwellers,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Los Angeles still has a 1/2 dozen or so Pumas making a living in the Santa Monica Mountains............Did we have to kill the baby lion that wandered into downtown Santa Monica this past week?....""Basically, they agitated and frightened a cornered cat before they killed her",,,,, "Hosing a Mountain Lion down and then shooting her with pepper-balls only served to make her more frenzied",,,. "Deadly force should be used only as a last resort",,,,,. "The citizens and wildlife of California deserve better"------Madeline Bernstein(SPCA LA)

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A Baby Mountain Lion Shot And Killed In Downtown Santa Monica   Brenton Garen / Editor-in-Chief Santa Monica police officers sho...

I sometimes think that we are living in the "Bizzaro World" as it relates to our insensitivity to our wild creatures...........Do you remember the Superman comics that you read as a kid featuring the alternative universe that was upside down and out-of-whack-----That is what we are living in now,,,,a BIZZARO WORLD" where so called responsible folks who are running for Govenor positions demonize wolves,,,,,,,,,where outfitters who are having great success bagging trophy elk and deer still cry out that Wolves are putting them out of business,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,It is not who is fibbing about how Wolves impact us humans-------Rather it is so many of us wjho have stumbled into the BIZARRO WORLD OF IDIOCY........We must close the portal to this "alternate and tortured universe" through intensive education, public relations efforts and the employ of charismatic and credible spokespeople from the world of commerce so as to legitimize the wild world that is such an essential component of our great nation

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Guest column: With elk and wolves, someone is fibbing By Todd Wilkinson; bozeman daily chronicle Nearly a decade ago, I wro...
Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Massachusetts Biologist Jon Way responding to the recent NY Times op ed article about why Deer must be controlled------Jon making a case that the Eastern Coyote(Coywolf) might in fact be mitigating the out-of-control white tail deer population east of the Mississippi.

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From: Jon Way ; jw9802@yahoo.com To: New York Times < letters@nytimes.com >; " oped@nytimes.com " < oped@nytimes.co...

The WILDLIFE SOCIETY President, Paul Krausman stressing HABITAT,,,,HABITAT,,,,HABITAT---the critical element to sustain wildlie

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Habitat: An Essential Element of Wildlife Management Paul Krausman, President, The Wildlife Society On my office bookshelves, I have ...

Video of bobcat in Manchester, New Hampshire set off media fear mongering as the local media incorrectly described Bobcat as a Puma.............Regardless of whether Bobcat or Puma, what Helen McGinnis of COUGAR REWILDING reveals is that no matter what Game Officials told the media, the Press went ahead and "cried wolf", causing unwarranted fear of wildlife amongst homeowners.............Crazy we are in the Rocky Mtns, Midwest and East Coast.................so much more education needed whether directed at rural or urban folks harboring so much hate, fear and distrust of our wild cousins

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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Helen McGinnis < HelenMcGinnis@frontiernet.net > Date: Tue, May 22, 2012 at 9:59 A...
Monday, May 21, 2012

Last week, NATURE MAGAZINE published an article about Coyotes and how it has spread into the Eastern USA...........Our friend, biologist Roland Kays was quoted as saying: "coyotes have not made a significant dent in the northeast's deer population".... "Coyotes fill part of the empty niche, but they don't completely replace wolves".......It is true that Coyotes do not make a serious dent on adult deer but as we have discussed on this blog previously, there is a study in South Carolina that has concluded that Coyotes are responsible for 33-80% of fawn deaths in the state.............and where clearcutting and roads are rampant as in Grapesie National Park in Quebec, Canada, Coyotes are taking Caribou fawns as well...........Yet in very high deer density regions like Pennsylvania and West Virginia(20 or more deer per sq mile),,,,,,deer herds are not being impacted by what the Nez Perce first nations call the worlds most impactful creature; THE COYOTE----(Near the dawn of time, the story goes, Coyote saved the creatures of Earth...... According to the mythology of Idaho's Nez Perce people, the monster Kamiah had stalked into the region and was gobbling up the animals one by one...... The crafty Coyote evaded Kamiah but didn't want to lose his friends, so he let himself be swallowed...... From inside the beast, Coyote severed Kamiah's heart and freed his fellow animals...... Then he chopped up Kamiah and threw the pieces to the winds, where they gave birth to the peoples of the planet)-----If every one of our carnivores was a adaptable as the Coyote, the word "extinction" might not be part of our vocabulary!

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Coyotes Are the New Top Dogs Coyotes are champions of change and have evolved in clever ways to take advantage of a human-dominated lands...
Sunday, May 20, 2012

Another opportunity is seemingly on the horizon for Congress to debate the pros and cons of the Federal WILDLIFE SERVICES AGENCY..........."It's the right time to have the debate," said Carter Niemeyer, former Wildlife Services district supervisor"..... "It seems as good a time as ever to talk it out and see if this is where the public thinks we should be – and where the Congress thinks we should be."......."Niemeyer said many ranchers already benefit from low-cost federal grazing fees on public lands"......... "And predators, he added, should be strategically removed, not trapped, snared, poisoned and gunned down from the air in ways he said are often excessive, inhumane, indiscriminate and expensive"......."Why in the world should you and I pay for the federal government to fly around in helicopters for a handful of sheep men in this country, blasting coyotes year around"...... "Most of those coyotes have never been involved in (livestock) depredations"........... …"I think there are many roles (Wildlife Services) can play"....... "Corrective control is one thing, but to go out and do pre-emptive killing of large predators, coyotes on up, just seems to be an outmoded method of dealing with problems."

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THE HISTORY OF THE FEDERAL WILDLIFE SERVICES AGENCY Peter DeFazio tried this in 1998 with Republican Rep Charles Bass of New Hampshi...

Professor Daniel Cristol of William & Mary opinining correctly about the devastation that Deer have brought to our forests where Wolves and Pumas no longer are at play in the age old dance of predator and prey............Nubbing the forest floor to stubs, a myriad of frest understory anaimals including ground nesting birds are being "hammered" by the deer population that perhaps is larger than during pre-settlement times...........6 to 12 deer per sq. mile was the lay of the land before French, Spanish and English colonization, allowing for regeneration of the forest..........I take question with Mr. Cristtol's assertion that wolves and pumas cannot be restored to Eastern North America..............The USFW service has conducted studies where the criteria of roads, people and deer per sq mile all marry up to say that indeed the wolf and the puma can return to begin to psush back against "Bambi" who has lost the "landscape of fear" that historically made the deer a beautiiful presence in the woods..........We need the fleet footed deer to be on the move and not fixed in one location for any lengthy period so that our tree, shrub and flower seelings can take root and replenish our woodlands

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Why Bambi Must Go By DANIEL CRISTOL;nytimes.com         THIS month is the peak of spring bird migration, when ...

Griffith Park is an urban oasis of parkland smack in the middle of "beautiful downtown Burbank, California(adjacent to Dodger Stadium, Warner Bros. and Universal Studios).............Coyotes abound in the rugged chapparel and periodically a Puma is spotted as well..........Initiated in July 2011, the Griffith Park WIldlife Connectivity Study has recorded to date mountain lion (Puma concolor), bobcat (Lynx rufus), coyote (Canis latrans), mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus), raccoon (Procyon lotor), and striped skunk (Mephitis mephitis), among others. In the near future, camera stations will be added on the east side of Griffith Park to monitor potential connections for wildlife across Interstate-5 toward the Verdugo Mountains.......

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Puma living in Griffith Park, Burbank, California--kcet.org Editor's Note : It may seem alarming that there is a Mountain Lion livin...