The blog of the Eastern Cougar Foundation
Posted in ECF on Aug 30th, 2010
http://americanlion.org/
Visit this site for the latest on the activities of cougar advocacy organizations across the United States, including the Cougar Rewilding Foundation (formerly the Eastern Cougar Foundation).
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 [...]
Posted in Action Alert, ECF, Hunting, Preservation on Jul 22nd, 2010
The South Dakota Department of Game, Fish & Parks (GFP) is proposing to increase the kill of cougars in the next Black Hills hunt to reduce the population by 30%. The data analysis in their management proposal is skewed; the reduction of the cougar population could be much greater. At the same time, Wyoming proposes to [...]
As has been the case for the past few years, this winter –AERIE, in collaboration with ECF, hosted 2 separate mountain lion tracking workshops, one in late January and another in mid-February. Based out of Great Falls, Montana, these one-of-a-kind courses take place against the backdrop of the spectacular and rugged Bob Marshall and Scapegoat [...]
Posted in ECF, Eastern Cougar, Education, Preservation on Jan 22nd, 2010
By John W. Laundré
Eastern forests face a multitude of environmental threats that are often highly visible because of the obvious changes they cause.
There is, however, one threat that easily escapes most people’s eyes. It is insidious, extensive, and is altering the very composition of the eastern forests, changing them from highly diverse ecosystems to simplified [...]
Posted in Co-existence, ECF, Eastern Cougar, Education on Jan 21st, 2010
The following article from NorthJersey.com -
http://www.northjersey.com/news/environment/81945467_Experts__Cougars_only_inhabit_NJ_bars_But_locals_contend_they_ve_seen_mountain_lions_with_their_own_eyes__.html, as thorough a treatment in a daily newspaper of the eastern cougar story as the ECF has seen, contains a slight skew of our recovery mission. The conclusion suggests that the ECF advocates restorations to suburban regions. In our correspondence for the article, we emphasized that cougars are “living largely without incident” in western suburbs to [...]
Posted in ECF, Eastern Cougar, Education on Jan 6th, 2010
The Wolf Conservation Center’s lecture series continues this month with a unique program at 2pm on Sunday - January 10th!
The search for the eastern cougar is one of the great riddles in North American natural history. Despite thousands of sightings from Maine to Mississippi, only a dozen confirmations have emerged east of Chicago during the past generation. Join [...]
Posted in Co-existence, Control, ECF, Education, Encounters, Minnesota, Monitoring, Preservation on Dec 14th, 2009
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TwinCities.com – Pioneer Press
December 12, 2009
A letter to the editor:
Understanding cougars
Contrary to the purported threat of a cougar wandering Twin City suburbs, the statistical chances of the cat attacking a person are about as rare as being struck by a chunk of meteor (“Cougar faces a deadly fate if it stays in town,” Dec. 9).
In [...]