I don't know how to post this event on the State of Connecticut portion of FR.
I wanted to alert CT outdoorsmen and hunters of this potentially alarming rewilding that could come to the Northeast.
“The private Eastern Cougar Foundation, for example, spent a decade looking for evidence. Finding none, it changed its name to the Cougar Rewilding Foundation last year and shifted its focus from confirming sightings to advocating for the restoration of the big cat to its pre-colonial habitat. The wildlife service said it has no authority under the Endangered Species Act to reintroduce the mountain lion to the East.”
Without the public knowing, the CT DEEP introduced the fishercat to CT; after much pressure, they finally admitted to it.
Is this another case of the state DEEP overstepping without public input?
I have a feeling this thread is about to get hijacked.
Joan Collins is going to do what?
So big cats are showing up in back yards in every state, and we are adding to them.
What could go wrong?
They can have the ones that live out behind my place.
If they don’t live trap them and take them away, I guess I will just have to shoot them.
My neighbor lost his German Shepard to them last year, and the lady who lives in East Fork canyon had all of her cats eaten this summer.
But you might want to let those folks know that a mountain lion will also eat people when it gets hungry, they are really not all that fussy.
Easterners and city folk, they really don’t get it do they.
Tell them for me; “WHEN GUNPOWDER SPEAKS, THE WILDLIFE LISTENS”.
Without any public input the lynx has been reintoduced into the Cascade Coast mts...just because they used to live there. It is just a matter of time before other predators are released into prime habitat that the p.c. correct wildlife biologists declare as R.T.H. The next generation is going to have to ride the school bus just to not be ate.
I live in the far northeastern corner of Connecticut pretty far out in the woods. About mid July I saw a mountain lion cross the road I live in about 50-60 yards ahead of me. We have bear, lots of deer and wild turkeys and coyote. I walk the dogs twice a day because if I let them roam they won’t bd back.
What better way is there to “nudge” people out of the rural areas and back to the city than to release Mountain Lions and wolves in their backyard and take away their fire arms?
Any Cougar Rewilding Foundation members been killed and eaten by cougars yet?
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.
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.
We have Fischer cats near my house. When they screech at night it sounds like a baby wailing in the woods. Very creepy.
Jennifer Lopez recently played at the Sun. Coincidence?