cougar
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Wildlife Services has high average non-lethal record for all animals, but not for large carnivores- Lately there has been a lot of media critical of USDA-Wildlife Services; often called by its critics something like “the federal government’s wildlife killers.” In an effort to mount a defense the Service has pointed out that 80% of its…
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There might be an unusual amount of wolf/mountain lion conflict along the Idaho-Montana border- Liz Bradley, a wolf manager for Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks has found an unusually high number of wolves killed by cougar in the Bitterroot Mountains near the Montana-Idaho border from Lolo on the north to near the Idaho border on…
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This installment of Tom Knudson’s series in the Sacremento Bee investigates the efficacy of USDA Wildlife Services’ predator killing program to benefit wildlife. In short, it doesn’t, it generally causing more harm than good and could be having impacts on disease such as the plague due to the increase of rodents after control actions. In…
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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
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Cougar wanders through ag country and is illegally shot- Fish and Game looking for culprit who shot lion. Rexburg Standard Journal. By Joyce Edlefsen.