Sunday, July 14, 2019

"Coyotes occupy the role of top predator in the Pioneer Valley in western Massachusetts and likely have a negative impact on the local distributions of both red and gray foxes"..........However, the ability of the Gray Fox to climb trees likely allows for a greater population than that of Red foxes in this sympatric canid system................"Coyotes own local distribution in this region seem to be driven by prey availability"

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https://www.eaglehill.us/NENAonline/articles/NENA-26-2/16-Fuller.shtml Wild Canid Distribution and Co-existence in a Natural–Urban ...
Friday, July 12, 2019

"Population increases of white-tailed deer, combined with burgeoning plant invasions, raise concerns for native plant diversity and forest regeneration"............HISTORICALLY, PRIOR TO EUROPEAN COLONIZATION, THE NORTHEASTERN USA HAD A DEER DENSITY OF 6-12 PER SQUARE MILE..........TODAY, A GREAT SWATCH OF THIS LAND AREA HAS DOUBLE, TRIPLE AND EVEN 4 TO 5 TIMES AS MANY DEER PER SQUARE MILE........"A 2017 Study across 23 sites in the northeastern USA. revealed that native deer reduced plant community diversity, lowering native plant richness and abundance, and benefited certain invasive, alien, non-native plants"............"By altering the balance of native plants in favor of a higher fraction of invasive plants, deer change forest plant ecology"..........."In this way, invasive plants could have a bigger influence on the forest ecosystem and leave fewer opportunities for native animals who depend on the native plants"............."Such changes in plant community structures also have long-term impacts on forest regeneration"...........Bottom line, bring back top apex carnivores--Eastern Wolves and Pumas to tap down the deer populations!

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https://phys.org/news/2017-10-deer-native-forests.html OCTOBER 6, 2017 Deer prefer native plants leaving lasting damage on forests ...
Thursday, July 11, 2019

"Colorado Parks and Wildlife is working to confirm two possible gray wolf sightings in Jackson and Grand counties in northern Colorado"...........The last wild breeding wolves were extirpated from the state in the 1940's.........Biologists are speculating that this "radio-collared" Wolf treked down from the Yellowstone-Teton range in the Greater Yellowstone range of Wyoming

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Jackson County, Colorado Gray Wolf sighting from this past weekend, July 6-7, 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-MiVRYFEQ8 ht...
Wednesday, July 10, 2019

Esteemed nature writer and long time resident of the wildest region of the lower 48 states, THE YAAK of northern Montana, Rick Bass makes his case to re-route a proposed hiking trail that under existing plans, cuts into the heart of the territory that the remaining 25 Grizzly Bears call home in the wild Yaak

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C LICK ON LINK TO READ ENTIRE INTERVIEW WITH RICK BASS http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001qOK1AnMJ1ftrFupu4BidxcVK6aQNogon66okHri5KR3EqJtbwYtSw...
Tuesday, July 9, 2019

Ecologist John Laundre, the co-author of the landmark LANDSCAPE OF FEAR PREDATOR AND PREY PARADIGM is back with us today opining on the need for all of us----- bird and animal watchers, hikers, photographers, campers,,,,,,as well as hunters----to have an equal say on how Wildlife in the USA is managed..........Enjoy the read!

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John Laundré Born and raised in the Midwest Professor John Laundré received bachelors and masters degrees, and PhD from Idaho State. H...
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Sunday, June 23, 2019

Five years after the American Revolutionary War ended in 1783, pioneers from Massachusetts set out to create the first American City in what was known as the NORTHWEST TERRITORY, what would eventually become the States of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin................Marietta, Ohio was that first city outpost(1788) located in southeastern Ohio on the banks of the Ohio River..............By the close of the Civil War(1865), 80% of Ohio's woodlands had been cut down with Wolves, Pumas, Black Bears, Bobcats, Elk, Bison, Whitetail Deer, Fishers, Martens, Foxes and Passenger Pigons extirpated from the State................In 1751, two years prior to the outbreak of THE FRENCH & INDIAN WAR between England and France, the first American to chronicle his exploration through the Ohio territory, Christopher Gist stated: "I went to the south, westward down the little Miamee River or Creek, where I had fine traveling thro rich land and beautiful meadows, in which I could sometimes see forty or fifty buffaloes feeding at once"................."In 1779, Reverand David Zeisberger commented: "The Muskingum River(means) Elk's Eye, so called because of the numbers of elk that formerly fed on its banks, these animals being found there even at the present time".................At the outbreak of the War of 1812 between the USA and England, Isham Morgan wrote: "In the early times of Cuyohoga County(present day Cleveland), there were bears, wolves, deer, a few elks, wild turkeys, coons, porcupines, opposums, squirrels, wild ducks, geese and pigeons innumerable"..............."They too have nearly all left"............"In 1834, housewife Livvat Boke wrote: "Right up to our doorsill reaches the huge, somber and vaulted forest"..........."There are no openings to break up the overshadowy wolf-haunted woodland"................"The sunlight cannot get through the arches of the murmuring leaves"..............."Through the grayish shadow and down the pathways in the forest men walk, continually in a kind of midday gloom"

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https://ocvn.osu.edu/news/ohios-wild-history-frontier-fauna-1750-present Ohio's Wild History - Frontier Fauna 1750 to Present ...