Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Highly urbanized and densely human, the "Garden State" of New Jersey is somehow having a renaissance of wildlife with some of the largest Black Bears breeding in the USA,,,,,,,,,Coyotes aplenty,,,,,,,,,,,,and now Fishers and Bobcats re-entering the oak/hickory and Pine/Maple woodlands of the state..................Bobcat restoration efforts began in the late 1970s, when state wildlife officials trapped cats in Maine and brought them back to New Jersey..................... From 1978 to 1982, 24 bobcats were released in sections of Warren, Sussex and Morris counties north of Interstate 80. In 1991, the bobcat was placed on the state’s endangered species list............The Endangered and Nongame Species Program is launching a new project called “Connecting Habitat across New Jersey,” which maps critical habitat for bobcats and other species and identifies connecting corridors......... The state Department of Transportation is part of the study group, and could use information from the mapping to create new safe crossings where roads have become barriers, and make existing passage areas safer in high-mortality spots.............Data collected on bobcats is now being analyzed by researchers at Rutgers University who will come up with a “conservative” population estimate and identify population trends over time........... Those numbers will be used to assist with the recovery of the species............Excellent news with the rare motivation of diversity and not hunting and trapping as the paradigm being put in play by the Jersey Wildlife folks
http://www.dailyrecord.com/story/opinion/2015/03/07/bobcat-population-rebounding-new-jersey/24483389/--READ FULL ARTICLE
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