Posted on 10/24/2011 10:42:33 PM PDT by Daffynition
Cougar Rewilding
October 26 6:30-8PM FREE Downstairs at North Cove Outfitters, Main St., Old Saybrook, CT
Bringing Back the Legend: Cougar Recovery in Eastern North America
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. Members of the Cougar Rewilding Foundation have conducted sanctioned remote camera surveys in seven eastern states while investigating a decade of field evidence and cougar reports.
Christopher Spatz has run remote camera surveys at High Point State Park, NJ and in the Shawangunks at Minnewaska State Park and the Mohonk Preserve. Reviewing his survey findings with cougar biology, behavior and their current range, Chris will explain why sightings don’t produce evidence, and how restorations of this magnificent predator are imperative for the recovery of critically declining eastern forests.
Call 860-388-6585 ext. 321 to reserve your seat or sign up in Paddlesports.
What the hell is that?
A picture of a cougar with its ass on fire?
That would appear to be a cougar moving away from the house, between the tree and the reflection in the window of a light that is behind the picture-taker.
Meh. A tiny little paragraph in our local weekly paper....
** a developer was granted permission by the P&Z [you *know* how politically connected you need to be to get something favorable from groups like these, in small towns]for thinning 60K boardfeet of timber within a prime habitat for the endangered timber rattlesnake. WTF? He's building a development with young families, presumably as residents, and we're favoring rattlesnakes....one of the nastiest critters out there? LOL Heaven help us!
LOL.....HAHAHA!.............
proof that mountain lions are extinct in Connecticut? We’re continually told, citizen sightings are not credible. I guess, only carcasses count.
Here in Wisconsin there have been numerous citings of cougars. For years the state DNR denied that there were any in the state. Now they’re been forced to admit there are number of the big cats running loose in the heavily wooded sections of the state...which is quite a bit of Wisconsin. The western section, where I live, is especially hilly, wooded, and much less populated than the eastern half. Great territory for many kinds of wild critters.
Releasing rattlesnakes? What in the heck for?
Nice kitty.
Here kitty, here kitty kitty....
To control the exploding coyote and mountain lion population, of course.
LOL! Funny stuff right there!
In a “just damn” way, on further thought.
The infiltration of extremist Greens into government at all levels is what is really out of control.
*Improving* their habitat...BWHAHAHA!
Normally, no one would be allowed to cut this amount of trees ....so under the guise of improving their habitat, this well-connected developer skates. Small town P&Z stuff. It might be town owned land and the developer is thinning trees to enhance the view of his properties. It’s funny.
Why is it alarming? You’re an outdoorsmen and your afraid of a cougar? Or do you only go into the woods if nothing more fearsome than a grey squirrel exists there? I would love to see big game, wolfs, cougars and alike reintroduced. The deer population is huge, and spreading disease amoung man like crazy, let them release them.
I’ll still go out in the woods.
Radio collars all around! :)
For starters, my 7 y/o granddaughter only weighs about 60 lbs. and the .22 she can shoot won’t do squat, aside from the fact, that she doesn’t *carry*.
I’ve lost enough cats to coyotes and fisher cats, thank you very much.:)
We have Fischer cats near my house. When they screech at night it sounds like a baby wailing in the woods. Very creepy.
From what I understand they were introduced here [CT], in a trade between DEPs...We sent wild turkey to Maine and got fisher cats in trade. ;(
Keep your cats indoors.
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