Wildcats
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After several years of rising success in the lynx restoration in Colorado, the Colorado Division of Wildlife said they haven’t found single kitten this year. Nevertheless, it might part of the natural cycle of lynx. The cycle of abandance and then scarcity of snowshoe hare and lynx is well known by even those with most…
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In Idaho and Wyoming it’s wolves, but in Oregon the state legislature has focused on cougars (oh, they’ll do that in Idaho too, soon enough). Here is the sad story as told by George Wuerthner. Oregon’s Cougar Slaughter: A Return to the Dark Ages. New West. Oregon’s Department of Fish and Wildfire is using the…
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This story in the Tooele (TA will a) Transcript Bulletin brings some perspective on the Utah bear attack. The same is true in Idaho where there are also wolves. Bear maulings in the form of grizzly bear reactions and bison gorings change the equation a bit in Wyoming. The most dangerous large animal by far…
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This is from the Carnivore Conservation blog. Panther-vehicle fatalities. post 1267
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Eighteen national forests across the West are adopting “management direction” to protect the Canada lynx. I got a copy of this decision on Friday. The maps shows the “core” lynx habitat to be pretty much the same as the Greater Yellowstone grizzly bear and Northern Continental Divide grizzly bear habitat. Except for two tiny areas,…
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Utah man sentenced for poaching Nevada bobcats. The Ely (Nevada) Times. post 1210
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Here is a good article about the benefits of cougar populations in Zion National Park. The deer have nearly eliminated cottonwood reproduction in Zion Canyon, the main tourist attraction. It is full of people and deer. The large number of people in this congested canyon have scared away the cougar. There are a huge number…
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You might have seen them on the Internet — photos of cougars stalking deer in North Woods of Wisconsin or looking at Michigan children through the windows. At least that’s what the captions to them say. Sometimes things like a stray sagebrush in the photo reveal the truth that the photos were taken in usual…