When you hear State Game Commissions along with Ranchers, Farmers and Hunters saying that 20, 50, 100, 300 and even 1000 Wolves, Pumas, Grizzlies, Wolverines, Lynx and Black Bears constitute a "recovered" population that merits the institution of a hunting season, please point them to the article below(click on title to read full article) that depicts the sudden death of 1/2 of the deer-like Saiga population that resides across north central Asia----120,000 animals perishing to an unknown disease that has scientists baffled and distressed about what was a population that appeared to have "recovered" from previous near extermination .........Time for us to wake up to the fact that 100 Florida Pumas, a couple hundred wolverines in the northern Rockies, 2200 Black Bears in NJ, 25 Pumas in the Pine Ridge of Nebraska, etc, etc, etc does not represent a "recovered", ecosystems functioning carnivore population, the same as if only 5000 human animals remained in the USA after some godforsaken disaster.........You have to have large, interconnected populations that through their mobility, spreading of genes can withstand natures array of limiting agents.........Will we ever be able to look outside our myopic selves and do the right thing by natures creation????

Death on  the Steppes:  Mystery  Disease Kills  Saigas By CARL ZIMMER In the past two weeks, more than  a third of all  saigas have been killed,  conservationists have found. The  cause of the outbreak is unknown. Or, copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://nyti.ms/1eElEp6

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