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Grizzly bears, black bears, wolves, coyotes, cougars/ mountain lions,bobcats, wolverines, lynx, foxes, fishers and martens are the suite of carnivores that originally inhabited North America after the Pleistocene extinctions. This site invites research, commentary, point/counterpoint on that suite of native animals (predator and prey) that inhabited The Americas circa 1500-at the initial point of European exploration and subsequent colonization. Landscape ecology, journal accounts of explorers and frontiersmen, genetic evaluations of museum animals, peer reviewed 20th and 21st century research on various aspects of our "Wild America" as well as subjective commentary from expert and layman alike. All of the above being revealed and discussed with the underlying goal of one day seeing our Continent rewilded.....Where big enough swaths of open space exist with connective corridors to other large forest, meadow, mountain, valley, prairie, desert and chaparral wildlands.....Thereby enabling all of our historic fauna, including man, to live in a sustainable and healthy environment. - Blogger Rick

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Saturday, November 30, 2013

“Bears are an umbrella species. Each bear you take out of the population creates social disruption. It affects not only the bear population but the entire ecosystem in a negative way"--Kathryn Bricker of the advocacy group, NO BEAR HUNT NEVADA.........On the other side of the ledger is the Nevada Dept. of Conservation feeling that the Bears are fairly "common" with 300 to 400 in the state..................So far 14 Bears have been killed in the current hunt taking place in the state

Black Bear Hunt Spurs Objections « CBS Las Vegas

Black Bear Hunt Spurs Objections


The state says 6 of the 14 bears killed so far were west of Highway 395 in northern Nevada. Resident complaints in the Lake Tahoe Basin and along popular hiking trails on Mount Rose Summit put those areas off limits to this year’s hunt The state says 10 of the 14 bears killed so far are males, the largest weighing 500 pounds. Five bears have been killed in the Pine Nut Mountains.The hunts began after experts told state officials there was an adequate bear population to sustain a hunt.

















 outside biologists who “do not feel that we have an adequate population or have proven so, that we can safely hunt in a sustainable way. So there is conflicting expert opinion”, she says.She says there is no ecological justification for the hunts, she added. “Bears are an umbrella species. Each bear you take out of the population creates social disruption. It affects not only the bear population but the entire ecosystem in a negative way.”She cited polls indicating most Nevadans do not favor bear hunts.And she says a number of game hunters have also voiced opposition, but their voices have faded under pressure.“The organized hunting groups developed a slippery slope argument, where if we give any ground on this they’re going to want to take more, and this has to do with the larger picture of hunting rights. We don’t see it that way, but they have been successful in intimidating those who earlier spoke out to not do so anymore.”


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