Monday, July 25, 2016

Gail Clark is one of our Blog readers and she sent me the outline of the SPORTSMENS ACT(which a Clinton Presidency will likely support) and various writings about how DONALD TRUMP AND HIS SON DON JR. view our Public Lands Policies------Have a look and you determine which will MAKE OUR WILD AMERICA GREAT AGAIN?...............You might be surprised at the conclusions that you reach

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WHICH OF THE PLANS BELOW WILL SERVE OUR PUBLIC LANDS AND  WILDLIFE BEST? WHAT A CLINTON PRESIDENCY WILL LIEKLY SUPPORT---- http:...
Sunday, July 24, 2016

Southern California's PROJECT COYOTE Representative, Randy Felich, clued me in on prolific western natural history author Dan Flores' eloquent Op Ed in Sunday's L.A. Times about how California's Coyote co-existence policy should be one that the rest of the USA adopts..........Read all of what Dan has to say by clicking on the link below-----He sums all-things Coyote in SoCal as follows: "Los Angeles, with its now-estimated 5,000 urban coyotes, has switched from trying to move coyotes out of the city to advising city-dwellers on how to coexist with them — including scaring them off, installing outdoor lights, eliminating food sources, and keeping pets on leashes"..................... "Frankly, these are steps we have no choice but to take; the coyotes are not going away"........................ "They have been living among humans for 15,000 years"................ "They are very good at it, and in places like Los Angeles they are getting smarter with every generation about surviving freeways and human weirdness"................... "The next task for the Golden State, our national mentor in human/coyote coexistence, is to learn to become nonchalant about coyotes’ presence in our midst, maybe even enjoy it".................. "As native animals of the continent long before us, the coyotes, for their part, seem to have no difficulties with this arrangement at all"

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https://www.google.com/amp/www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-flores-california-coyote-lessons-20160721-snap-story,amp.html?client=saf...
Saturday, July 23, 2016

Sometimes it feels that we are back 100 years ago during the height of the Federal Government's(Agriculture Dept. Wildlife Services) Wolf/Puma/Coyote/Bobcat extermination program--When you hear a North Carolina nimrod(watch video below) state that the Red Wolf has "a huge advantage" on us humans and will "overrun us" if we allow the Red Wolf rewilding program to continue, it just "turns the stomach"---Are we no further advanced in understanding that all wildlife, both predator and prey, have a role in optimizing the health and beauty of our great Country? USFW Service Poobah's,,,,,,,,,,,Do the right thing,,,,,,,,,,,,Do not let "the needs of the few outweigh the needs of the many" as it relates to following through on the endangered Species Directive that demands that we bring back the Red Wolf as a fully functioning member of our Eastern woodlands

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ttp://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/03/150318-red-wolves-north-carolina-conservation-reintroduction-science/?t=21 click on link above t...
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Friday, July 22, 2016

A "FIST BUMP" and a "TIP OF THE HAT" goes out to the Chicago City Council who this past Wednesday passed an Ordinance that makes clear "that the Chicago Animal Control department should leave Coyotes to their own devices unless they appear aggressive or otherwise dangerous"..........Our Friend Stan Gehrt of the long running Chicago Urban Coyote Study testified in front of the Council (with the backing of Alderman Brian Hopkins) depicting how Coyotes serve the city well as an effective control agent of rats, mice and geese--and are of little threat to people...........Way to go guys!!!!!!

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Thursday, July 21, 2016

"In its natural state, before it was channeled and lined with concrete, the 51-mile-long Los Angeles River was often little more than a trickle for nine months of the year"................ "During the rainy season(October through April in normal weather years), the small, braided stream would turn into a powerful, churning river"............... "It behaved like a dropped fire hose, wildly lashing the Los Angeles valley, scouring gravel and soil across a seven-mile-wide floodplain, and carving a new course with every deluge"............. "When the waters receded, a mosaic of fertile marshes, ponds, and other wetlands remained"............."Since the catastrophic flooding event of 1938, the L.A. River has become a concrete drainage pipeline"............."It is no longer connected to groundwater and can't be until toxic waste from a number of U.S. Defense Department facilities in the region"............With plans to restore portions of the river to something that conveys more "naturalness", folks in SoCal will hopefully start to think about the river differently and not as a drainage ditch--"a teachable moment" as well as an escape from the intense urbanization that defines so much of human dominated L.A.

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CLICK HERE TO GO TO LINK:   revitalize and re-green the 51-mile Los Angeles River .  ...
Wednesday, July 20, 2016

Any Island is subject to gross die-off of natural systems when exotic and introduced species find their way into the system............"(In Hawaii), some 90 percent of the state’s original dry forest has been lost to agriculture, overgrazing by feral livestock and introduced game animals, and the incursion of invasive plants such as fountain grass"............"At the height of its biodiversity, before the arrival of the first Polynesians 1,000 to 1,200 years ago, Hawai‘i was home to well over 10,000 endemic plant and animal species, or species found nowhere else in the world"................"Today Hawai‘i is known as the “extinction capital of the world” for good reason"............. "Though the island chain makes up less than 0.2 percent of the U.S. land area, it accounts for about 75 percent of the country’s known plant and animal extinctions and about a third of all species that are listed by the federal government as threatened or endangered".........."Historical and archaeological records suggest that the Hawaiian Islands underwent two great waves of extinction".............. "The first followed arrival of the Polynesians, when both the settlers and the rats, dogs and pigs they introduced found Hawai‘i’s flightless birds easy prey"............ "The second, far more extensive wave followed in the 1800s when immigrants from Europe, Asia and the Americas landed—along with the rats, cats, goats, cattle, sheep, pigs, deer, disease-carrying mosquitoes and other nonnative species they purposefully or heedlessly brought along"

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http://www.nwf.org/News-and-Magazines/National-Wildlife/Animals/Archives/2016/Hawaii.aspx Hawai‘i at the Crossroads Site of this year...
Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Colorado Wolf sightings and a shooting death in 2015 of a confirmed Gray Wolf north of the town of Kermling has Colorado wildlife Officials reminding residents that Wolves are currently protected under Federal law and that they cannot be killed............Ironic that in January of this year, Gov. Hickenlooper and his wildlife commission voted to outlaw introduction of Mexican Wolves into Colorado..........."In the territory that eventually became the state of Colorado, in 1876, estimates of about 5,000 wolves eliminated are often cited"............... "Colorado has been mostly without wolves for more than 70 years, with the last one on record killed in 1945"..............It is likely that both Gray and Mexican Wolves intersected in parts of Colorado even though Hickenlooper is currently "going to the legal wall" saying that Mexican Wolves historically never ranged into today's Colorado......Really??????????????......

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https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://kdvr.com/2016/07/18/you-may-start-seeing-gray-wolves-in-colorado/&ct=ga&cd...
Monday, July 18, 2016

"A team of researchers from the U. of Washington has for the first time begun to quantify the economic and social impact of bringing back large carnivores"........... "Using cougars and their value in reducing deer-vehicle collisions as a case study, the researchers found that within 30 years of cougars recolonizing the Eastern U.S., large cats could thin deer populations and reduce vehicle collisions by 22 percent -- each year preventing five human fatalities, 680 injuries and avoiding costs of $50 million"

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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/07/160714163350.htm Bill Betty Science News from research organizations ...