Friday, April 24, 2015

Will the throngs of animal lovers and nature enthusiasts that call California home come forth and help Caltrans fund the necessary willdlife over/underpasses built so that the Pumas, Coyotes and perhaps one day again--Wolves and Grizzlies can spread their genes, multiply and fulfill their ecological services on the land?

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http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/sciencedaily/plants_animals/~3/8zVDjHSddnY/150420183338.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email Wh...

A couple of Tucson residents are hoping that more people will learn to appreciate and protect rattlesnakes and other snakes in our region and around the world.................. Melissa Amarello and Jeff Smith are co-founders of Advocates for Snake Preservation.............. They are trying to dispel myths about the maligned reptiles and give them a better shot at survival in their interactions / proximity to human beings............. However, Amarello and Smith admit it can be a tough sell- rattlesnakes are not seen as beautiful or cuddly as are some species like hummingbirds or panda bears..........watch the video below

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VIEW LIVING WITH RATTLESNAKES VIDEO BELOW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iLlGDRjhtE#t=197

Published in the April 2015 Cougar Rewilding Foundation (CRF) Newsletter, "Yellowstone East: The Economic Benefits of Restoring the Adirondack Ecosystem With Native Wildlife," CRF executives Dr. John Laundre and Christopher Spatz cite as examples U.S. regions currently promoting big wildlife recreation............... Penned herds of elk and bison attract 130,000 visitors yearly to Kentucky's Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area............. Red wolves restored to North Carolina's Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge attract 25,000 families, generate $37 million every year, and have boosted eastern North Carolina tourism by 19%.............. Yellowstone National Park's 1.8 million annual wildlife watching tourists produce $675 million in revenue, many drawn to Yellowstone's elk, bison and its restored wolves. ...............The study suggests that rewilding America's first wilderness with its marquee wildlife would draw an additional 470,000 wildlife recreationists a year, in part, by keeping New York wildlife watchers in-state.................. "Nearly two-thirds of New York State's $10.6 billion in annual wildlife watching revenue goes out-of-state," says John Laundre, the former SUNY Oswego ecologist who published a cougar habitat analysis for the Adirondacks in 2013, "With these big, charismatic animals restored to the East's grandest Park, tourists and hunters from downstate, and the City, and the Northeast could decide to stay closer to home instead of going to Alaska or Yellowstone or on an African big game safari - 84 million of them within a day's drive.".

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Thursday, April 23, 2015

Will British Columbia come to it's senses and make permanent it's temporary order stopping the Wolf slaughter that it initiated under the guise of seeking to protect dwindling Caribou herds?

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http://www.thetyee.ca/News/2015/04/22/Wolf-Killing-Plans-BC-Paused/ BC's Wolf Killing Plan on Pause, for Now This year's...

THE REWILDING INSTITUTE'S Dave Foreman "riffing about wilderness and asking the question: "Can Wilderness still exist on our planet of 7 billion-----10 billion humans?

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The New York City CBS television station ran a report on the multiple sightings of coyotes in Manhattan and across the Hudson River in New Jersey today............Never in my growing up period in the 1960's-70's would I have ever thought Coyotes would penetrate the "Concrete Jungle".............Truly a testimony to the intelligence, curiosity, perseverance and never-say-die attitude of our resilient Coyote

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CLICK ON LINK BELOW TO WATCH A FULL VIDEO OF NYC COYOTES   http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2015/04/23/coyote-that-h...
Wednesday, April 22, 2015

My favorite Magazine, NORTHERN WOODLANDS had this to say about adolescent Bald Eagles-----" Bald Eagles have an extended adolescence"............ "They require about four to five years to mature"........... "During this period they don’t find mates or establish territories......Unlike mature Eagles with their crested white heads and full black plumage, Eagles have dark heads and speckled plumage which "perhaps has a signaling purpose"........ "It may tell adult birds that youngsters aren’t fully mature and thus not a threat to a breeding territory"......... "What is certain is that in nesting season, when mated eagles are intolerant of adult eagle intruders, they’re much more likely to let young birds linger nearby".............."At a food site, or when crossing another bird’s territory, an immature eagle has to figure out how to assert itself, and how to back down from a fight"............ "Typical of many bird species, “eagles do a lot of posturing, a lot of wing spreading and showing their talons"........."

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Awkward Adolescent Eagles | The Outside Story | April 13th 2015 Awkward Adolescent Eagles by Elise Tillinghast April 13th 2015 ...

Ecologist Cristina Eisenberg penned an insightful and compelling Earth Day article discussing how top trophic carnivores have a large role to play in helping our natural systems withstand the worst impacts of climate change........In Cristina's own words-------."While wolves and other carnivores won't slow climate change, they can help create ecosystems better able to withstand it"............... "However, trophic cascades have yet to make it into the climate change solution lexicon"............ "Could this be because combating climate change with wolves is too implausible? Some ecologists think so".............. "But nearly 90 years ago, at least one person was promoting wolf conservation as a means to create more resilient ecosystems in the face of drought and other ecological stressors".............. "That individual was another eminent Wisconsinite, Aldo Leopold"................"He suggested that ecological resilience "varies inversely with aridity," and that water, soil, animals and plants, "bear a delicately balanced interrelation to each other"........... "He urged scientists to parse these relationships and managers to apply best science"................ "One decade later in the essay "A Conservationist in Mexico," he recommended doing so by allowing wolves to return in reasonable numbers"....................."Best science demonstrates that conserving carnivores, be they coyotes in New England, cougars in the Dakotas, or wolves in the Pacific Northwest, could help us adapt to climate change and stave extinction for myriad species"

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 CLICK BELOW LINK TO READ CRISTINA'S FULL ARTICLE http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cristina-eisenberg/celebrating-earth-day-...