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Posted in Control, Encounters, Monitoring, S. Dakota on Aug 31st, 2009
RAPID CITY, S.D. – A mountain lion was shot and killed after wandering into a residential neighborhood in western South Dakota.
The Rapid City Police Department fielded several calls Saturday morning from residents who had spotted the animal. Officers found the mountain lion in a tree.
The police department, along with the state Game, [...]
Posted in Monitoring, Nebraska, Remote Camera on Aug 24th, 2009
(Omaha World-Herald (NE) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Aug. 22–
They’re back.
Not that they were gone.
A trail camera mounted on a leaning boxelder tree in northwest Nebraska’s Pine Ridge captured an image of a mountain lion as it roamed out of a creek bed on Aug. 15.
“I about had a heart attack when I saw that picture. [...]
Posted in Florida, Florida Panther, Monitoring on Aug 22nd, 2009
news-press.com
http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009908220313
Whitish-gray shade unusual, biologist says
By Andrea Stetson • Special to The News-Press • August 22, 2009
Mark Lotz has been working with Florida panthers for 15 years, but he’s never seen anything like the baby panthers he recently found in Collier County.
Instead of the typical tawny color with brown spots, these two male panthers are whitish-gray.
“They [...]
Posted in Attacks, Co-existence, Encounters, Washington on Aug 21st, 2009
http://wenatcheeworld.com/article/20090821/NEWS04/708219980/0/HEALTH?-My-hands-were-shaking—Cougar-shooter-tells-his-story
By Rachel SchleifWorld staff writer
Posted August 21, 2009
LEAVENWORTH, Washington — Esmerelda the hog was saved from an attacking cougar Saturday by a 20-year-old man shooting a broken .22 caliber rifle from 100 yards away.
Hayden Winkler, in his boxers, had just sat down with a cup of coffee, when he heard the pig’s screams around 8 [...]
Posted in Arizona, Control, Monitoring on Aug 21st, 2009
http://www.azcentral.com/php-bin/clicktrack/email.php/8897663
It is simple concept: A wildlife refuge should include predators and prey.
But in the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge, mountain lions are killing too many desert-bighorn sheep.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which manages the refuge, says limiting mountain-lion predation “could benefit” Kofa’s bighorn sheep. The agency’s draft environmental assessment recommends removing some lions. But [...]
Posted in British Columbia, Control, Monitoring on Aug 19th, 2009
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
http://www.alberniportal.ca/modules/AMS/article.php?storyid=123
By David Wiwchar
PORT ALBERNI – One specialized cougar hound is dead and another two seriously injured after a weekend attack near Rainy Bay.
Veteran tracker Rod Hardie was called to the remote area at the northwestern end of the Alberni Inlet after a cougar attacked a yellow Labrador retriever belonging to [...]
Posted in California, DNA, Monitoring on Aug 19th, 2009
The female, found recently in the Santa Monica Mountains, could be descended from the habitat’s lion king. If so, researchers say, that could prove the ecosystem is viable for mountain cats.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-mountain-lion18-2009aug18,0,3726475.story
A recently discovered female cougar could be a princess.
The cougar, a mountain lion named Puma 13, or P-13 for short, may be a descendant [...]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/15/AR2009081502602.html
Washington Post
Animal Watch
‘Mountain Lion’ Turns Out to Be a Softy
Sunday, August 16, 2009
LOVETTSVILLE, Rickard Rd., July 31. A real estate agent reported that she saw an injured mountain lion inside a three-sided shed while she was showing a property in the late afternoon. The view of the shed’s interior was partially obscured by weeds at [...]