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  • Disappearce of cougars in Zion NP has led to a general ecological decline

    Ralph Maughan

    I always wondered why the Virgin River looked so oddly entrenched and actively eroding in Zion NP. It may be an indirect effect of the loss of the cougar. As any visitor will attest, the deer are everywhere. Cougar predation key to ecosystem health

  • Gone for Decades, Jaguars Steal Back to the Southwest

    Ralph Maughan

    Carnivore conservation has a great story on the slow and threatened return of the jaguar to the American Southwest. If the border fence is built, I think part of the plan should be a reintroduction of jaguar. Note that President Bush recently signed an authoization to build a 700 mile fence along the Arizona/Mexico border,…

  • Dr. Paul Beier’s List of Mountain Lion attacks

    Ralph Maughan

    I found a better list of mountain lion attacks than the one I posted the other day. It is maintained by a wildlife ecology professor. Cougar Attacks on Humans in the United States and Canada

  • Wyoming adopts its first cougar plan

    Ralph Maughan

    The Wyoming Game and Fish Commission has adopted the first mountain lion management plan the state has ever had. The Wyoming Wildlife Federation welcomed the plan. The Casper Star Tribune has the article. Read it. Added on Sept. 20. Here is a link (pdf file) to the Wyoming Mountain Lion Plan.

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