Sunday, June 23, 2013

Our friend, Carnivore biologist John Laundre has written a "tomb" to our natural world that should be required reading in the halls of Congress, the Supreme Court and the White House...........Every Governor and state Representative, every state Wildlife Commissioner and every High School and College student, teacher and Professor should take John's "course" in how we are all a part of the circle of life including the big cats, bears and wolves that share our planet with us..................In fact, it is these large predators, (including us human animal predators) that help maintain the balance, health and positive ebb and flow of life on the one planet we all call home.................As another good friend, Cougar Rewilding's Chris Spatz recently told me, "JOHN LAUNDRE SHOULD RECEIVE A NOBEL PRIZE FOR HIS REVELATIONS, ANALYSIS AND SET OF COMMANDMENTS ON HOW WE SHOULD GO ABOUT REWILDING OUR WORLD"----Happy Sunday everyone and thanks John for your contributions!!!!!!!

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Ghosts of the Appalachians  or the Missing Actors?  John Laundre;living alongsidewildlife.com     When we pass throu...
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Friday, June 21, 2013

Hemlock forests which are under siege from the asian Wooly Adelgid sucking insect are now faced with a new threat....................Our bloated Whitetail Deer population is overloading hemlock deeryards with an overload of nitrogen from their urine.............Hemlocks are historically slow growers and the "vitamin-laced" nitrogen from the Deer pee stimulates the growth of other tree and plant species(e.g Sugar Maples), resulting in baby hemlocks being outcompeted...................................Pumas and Wolves needed back in the landscape to place a check on deer.

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Too much deer pee changing northern forests By Becky Oskin LiveScience.com; fosnews.com White-tailed deer congregate u...

Outdoor writer and naturalist George Wuerthner, PREDATOR DEFENSE "captain" Brooks Fahy, Biologist John Laundre and many other contributors to this blog often cite their opinions on why they(and I) do not feel there is any justification in the 21ast century for hunting and trapping carnivores..............................And as we have seen in Yellowstone and other locales where Wolves reside, diseases such as mange and parvovirus in combination with space and prey restrictions bring an ebb and flow to Wolf populations that keep them in a rough equilibrium with the land.....................As Oregon has begun to repopulate with Wolves, Pavovirus has sprung up and is beginning to make it's impact felt..............................

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Field Reports: Oregon wolf dies from parvovirus spokesman.com  The first case of parvovirus in Oregon wolves has been documented ...

Once common in the Champlain Valley(northwestern Vermont), the Timber Rattlesnake hangs by a thread to survival in two isolated pockets in Rutland County(central Vermont)..............Researchers are now also facing the recently documented "fungal disease" that is killing rattlers across their range.................Like whitenose syndrome that has decimated bat populations east of the Mississippi, the snake disease most likely is caused by the accumulated environmental assault that we humans have relentless waged on the natural world,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Global warming, chemicals of all sorts-------As Bill Maher often states on his late night HBO program,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,let us exhibit some humility and fess up to the havoc we are causing rather than hiding our heads in the sand and pretending that some "mysterious" force is responsible for these problems

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VF&W works to recover Vermont's timber rattlesnakes mountaintimes.com RUTLAND COUNTY- The Vermont Fish & Wildlife D...