Wildcats
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Findings contradict local views on the dire effect of wolves on elk calves- Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks and University of Montana have a 3-year study going to find out about elk and predator relations in the southern part (the “upper part”) of the Bitterroot Valley, Montana. By the time of the recently ended wolf…
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New Hampshire Fish and Game trying to document them after 4 kittens found– Sightings have been increasing and New Hampshire Fish and Game is fundraising so it will have money to create a conservation plan for lynx. Story. WMUR Television. http://www.wildnh.com/Wildlife/Nongame/support_nongame.htm
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Some good news for the day. An apparently healthy male jaguar has been documented in southern Arizona. This is good news after the Macho B incident where another male jaguar, the only one known to live in the entire US, was trapped and later died due to trapping stress. We wrote about that incident in…
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Contrary to the headline of this story, the second mountain lion shot in the Treasure Valley was not shot in downtown Boise, it was shot in an area where there is significant interface with public lands and wildlife. Mores Creek flows into Lucky Peak Reservoir outside of city limits in an area where quite a…
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For places to see a mountain lion, the area near 9th and Myrtle in Boise would be the last place I would expect. More than likely this is a young male cat looking for a territory and it probably won’t live too long unless it leaves soon. The bobcat, however, seems likely to be the…
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The cougar was accidentally tracked as it made its way from the Black Hills through mid-West and Canada to end up under the wheels of an SUV in Connecticut- Connecticut Mountain Lion Traveled from South Dakota. The cougar’s 1,100-mile journey is the longest ever recorded. By Michael Dinan. The New Rochelle Patch
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Oregon legislature fails to resurrect hunting practice banned by Oregon voters in 1994- Cougar hunting bill dies in Senate committee. Ashland Daily Tidings. Cougar hunting interests say they will try again in 2012.
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A fine editorial as cougar increasingly reinhabit the Cornhusker state- Wild, rare and beautiful. Editorial in the Lincoln (NB) Journal-Star