Posted in California, Education, Illinois on Sep 3rd, 2010
At Daniel Levin Becker’s blog, you’ll find a collection of 20 songs in honor of the cougar killed in metropolitan Berkeley, California, on August 31st. You can dowload most of them.
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/2010/09/the_lion_sleeps_tonight_a_trib.php
The Berkeley Police Department shot and killed an errant mountain lion early yesterday morning. In the minor controversy that has ensued over whether they should have [...]
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There is a growing effort in the eastern U.S. to try and restore ecological balance in ecosystems long abused by domesticated populations of white-tailed deer. Groups such as the Cougar Rewilding Foundation, Coalition to Restore Eastern Wolves, and many others are trying to re-establish populations of the two top predators, cougars and wolves, into the [...]
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Posted in ECF, Education, Minnesota on Aug 30th, 2010
Mountain Lion Incident Management and Capture and Handling for Natural Resource, Animal Control and Law Enforcement Professionals
There are increasing confirmations of mountain lions in the Great Plains and Midwest as they naturally disperse from more western areas. Feral or escaped captive mountain lions, also known as cougars or pumas, are sometimes detected as well.
Though these [...]
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Posted in Education on Aug 18th, 2010
These channels include Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island, and South Carolina. The program has been widely shown on big screens to the acclaim of ecologists and conservationists. Conservation biologists Bill Ripple and Bob Bechstra, basing their research on pioneering studies by CRF’s Vice President Dr. John Laundre’, explain why predators [...]
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Posted in Education, Wisconsin on Aug 11th, 2010
You will find a lot of reading material when you click on Senator Schultz’ link below.
http://www.wiscnews.com/baraboonewsrepublic/news/opinion/article_74e68b5a-a0c4-11df-89af-001cc4c03286.html
Baraboo News Republic
Dale Schultz: Cougars in Wisconsin are rare, reclusive cats
When, in 2008, a two-year-old male cougar from the Dakotas was photographed as he roamed through Wisconsin before he was killed in Chicago, he earned the distinction of being the [...]
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Posted in Education, Missouri on Aug 11th, 2010
The last confirmations in Missouri recognized by the Cougar Network was a verified deer kill in Shannon County in November 2006 (southern part of the state) and a remote camera photo taken on December 7, 2006 in north-central Missouri.
http://www.joplinglobe.com/local/x2064740940/Presentation-to-help-sort-facts-myths-about-big-cats
The Joplin Globe
Presentation to help sort facts, myths about big cats
By Will Blanchard
JOPLIN, Mo. — Pa Ingalls [...]
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Posted in Education on Jul 2nd, 2010
http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/10070123-trophic-cascades-disruption-may-include-loss-woolly-mammoth-saber-toothed-cat.html
Science Centric
July 1, 2010
‘Trophic cascades’ of disruption may include loss of woolly mammoth, saber-toothed cat
A new analysis of the extinction of woolly mammoths and other large mammals more than 10,000 years ago suggests that they may have fallen victim to the same type of ‘trophic cascade’ of ecosystem disruption that scientists say is being caused [...]
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Posted in Education, Monitoring on Jun 14th, 2010
http://www.actionbioscience.org/biodiversity/rooney.html
This link is to an excellent online article by Dr. Tom Rooney of Wright State University. In this article Dr. Rooney outlines the history behind the “deer problem” we currently face in much of the Midwest and East. Like anything, we can have too much of a good thing (deer to hunt, bambies to watch), [...]
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