Posted in Education, Saskatchewan on Jul 31st, 2009
The Cypress Hills supports Canada’s easternmost documented cougar population.
http://www.prairiepost.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3987&Itemid=28
Prairie Post East
Researcher shares some findings about Cypress Hills cougars
Cypress Hills-Alberta
By Rose Sanchez
July 30, 2009
About 40 people took the time to learn more about cougars in the Cypress Hills.
As part of Parks Day activities July 18th, Michelle Bacon, earning her Masters through the University of [...]
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Posted in California on Jul 31st, 2009
http://www.insidebayarea.com/dailyreview/localnews/ci_12950825
The Oakland [CA] Tribune
Big feline triggers mountain lion scare
By Eric Kurhi Oakland Tribune
07/30/2009
HAYWARD — Prowling an overgrown creek bed between two mobile home parks, Hayward’s most wanted feline caused quite a commotion Wednesday afternoon.
More than a half-dozen officers combed the area off Industrial Parkway near Interstate 880, with chopper backup providing eyes in the sky. [...]
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Posted in Hoax, New York on Jul 31st, 2009
Newark is in western New York east of Rochester.
http://rochesterhomepage.net/content/video/?cid=108661
rochesterhomepage.com
Cougar Sighting Hoax in Newark
Reported by: Evan Axelbank
Wednesday, Jul 29, 2009 @07:40am EST
The Department of Environmental Conservation gets dozens of calls about strange animals every year. In this case, they say the animal in question, a cougar, was part of a prank that went too far.
The [...]
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Posted in Jaguars, Mexico on Jul 28th, 2009
The Eastern Cougar Foundation may recommend reintroduction of cougars to the eastern US.
http://www.azstarnet.com/news/301499 Arizona Daily Star
By Tony Davis
Arizona Daily Star
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 07.19.2009
One jaguar died and one survived a historic release into the jungle of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula — an effort aided by an Arizona veterinarian and at least two Arizona biologists.
The dead jaguar, [...]
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Posted in Co-existence, Colorado, Education on Jul 28th, 2009
http://www.vaildaily.com/article/20090718/NEWS/907179963/1062
Vail Daily
Camping: What you should really be afraid of
It not that there is nothing to be afraid of out there. It that we are often afraid of the wrong things
Dave Philipps
Colorado Springs Gazette
July 18, 2009
Let face it, spending a night out in the woods is kind of scary.
It dark out there. It lonely. Big [...]
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Posted in Maine on Jul 28th, 2009
http://kennebecjournal.mainetoday.com/news/local/6616253.html
Kennebec Journal
Mountain lion still a mythical creature in area
BY SCOTT MONROE
Staff Writer
07/17/2009
Sorry, but it wasn’t a mountain lion.
That’s the determination state officials made Thursday of a sample of feces, known as scat, found June 8 on Riggs Brook Lane in northern Augusta.
In fact, genetic testing found the scat belonged to the Canidae family of [...]
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Posted in ECF on Jul 11th, 2009
The June 2009 issue of The ECF Update, our quarterly newsletter, is now being distributed to ECF members. If you believe cougars should be re-established in suitable habitat in the Midwest and East and that recovering populations at the western edge of the Great Plains should be managed sustainably, please support us by becoming a [...]
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Posted in Maine on Jul 11th, 2009
http://morningsentinel.mainetoday.com/view/letters/6574968.html
Myths, misconceptions about mountain lions
Kennebec Journal” 07/10/2009
While the June 24 newspaper report of a possible mountain lion sighted in Winslow, and your follow-up editorial are encouraging to cougar enthusiasts throughout the East, I would like to address several omissions and errors.
The article mentioned two Maine confirmations, one in 1938, and another in 1995. A [...]
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