Wildcats
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This story is from the Reno Gazette Journal. By Jeff DeLong The cougar may be preying largely on the foals of wild horses in the Virginia Mountain range of extreme Western Nevada. It has been fitted with a radio-collar to see if this seemingly rare kind of predation is taking place.
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Bob Caesar called my attention to this story story in the Jackson Hole News and Guide. Cougars die from Plague by Cory Hatch. A mother cougar and her kitten died of plague. Two other cougars were found dead of the plague. This is rare in Wyoming, plague being more of a threat in the Southwest,…
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There is always breaking news about cougars in the mid-West and east, and can be found at the Cougar Network. http://www.cougarnet.org/breakingnews.html Story about the Missouri mountain lion in the Missouri paper. Mountain Lion Sighting Confirmed. Chillicothe Constitution Tribune. Tuesday, December 12, 2006
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An interesting, lengthy cougar story from the Santa Monica Mountains near L.A. appeared the other day in the LA Times (By Amanda Covarrubias)
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This issue has been very controversial, and the Service’s designation is very small. It is only 10% of what was first proposed, and it is almost entirely inside national parks where the designation hardly matters. Story from the Daily InterLake (Kalispell, Montana).
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Two radio collared lynx have been shot in the last two weeks on southwestern Colorado. A $5000 reward is being offered for information Wild Again has the full story.
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University of Idaho researchers Jim and Holly Akenson have been living at Taylor Ranch Field Station, deep in the Frank Church Wilderness, since at least 2000. It was in 2001 that I heard them present their first research results at our annual North American wolf conference. While this article does not cover all of their…
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The post on the lack of cougars resulting in damage to the ecology of Zion National Park has prompted a lot of comments. I thought I’d post a photo I took of the Virgin River in Zion Canyon last March. The streambanks are trampled and bare or are calving off where the silt is deep.…