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Cougar sighting confirmed
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel ^
| 2-5-08
| LEE BERGQUIST
Posted on 02/07/2008 9:29:48 AM PST by Renfield
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To: abb
LOL! Wiping coffee off my screen.
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posted on
02/07/2008 9:49:41 AM PST
by
CholeraJoe
(Super What? How much longer until Nascar starts?)
To: Renfield
Wait a minute!
Wait a minute!
There is somebody from Washington State University
there?
Is this somehow a big deal?
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posted on
02/07/2008 9:49:50 AM PST
by
righttackle44
(The most dangerous weapon in the world is a Marine with his rifle and the American people behind him)
To: bmwcyle
*Sigh* Why didn’t any of my high school friends have mothers that looked and acted like Stiffler’s mom?
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posted on
02/07/2008 9:52:56 AM PST
by
CholeraJoe
(Super What? How much longer until Nascar starts?)
To: Sopater; ER Doc; CholeraJoe; neverdem
It’s “interesting” that the many state wildlife agencies seem to “consistently” deny, deny, deny cougar incidents in every one of their states (where the deadly cats were previously held to be extinct!) UNTIL they get a dead body brought in.
Seems the fish & wildlife fanatics would be taking the opposite attitude - are they actually happier that the animals are extinct in their area, or alive in their area?
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posted on
02/07/2008 9:57:33 AM PST
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: Renfield
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posted on
02/07/2008 9:57:54 AM PST
by
weegee
(Those who surrender personal liberty to lower global temperatures will receive neither.)
To: ER Doc
Do you mean we cant trust the government?
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posted on
02/07/2008 10:00:03 AM PST
by
Former MSM Viewer
("We will hunt the terrorists in every dark corner of the earth. We will be relentless." W 2001)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Its interesting that the many state wildlife agencies seem to consistently deny, deny, deny cougar incidents in every one of their states (where the deadly cats were previously held to be extinct!) UNTIL they get a dead body brought in.
I think that it goes back to the idea that the gov't agencies seem to think that we have to be protected from ourselves because we (the populous) are prone to irrational fear and panic if we are told that there is a potential danger in our midst. They're probably just trying to keep us all from killing ourselves in mass hysteria. (/sarc)
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posted on
02/07/2008 10:18:39 AM PST
by
Sopater
(A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left. ~ Ecclesiastes 10:2)
To: Renfield
The DNA sample came from blood while Fendry and another DNR employee tracked footprints in the snow.Where did the blood come from?
To: weegee
That guy looks like he should be a roadie for the band KISS.
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posted on
02/07/2008 10:20:09 AM PST
by
VA_Gentleman
(Doing my part to prove that global warming is a hoax.)
To: chae
It makes you wonder why anyone in their right mind would reintroduce dangerous predators to an area which really does not need them. Until you look at things like this:
Buffalo Commons or recall the UN Agenda 21 crowd, who are still hard at it. (Algore's great global warming/climate change dogma and pony show ties in really well).
The folks around here (Western North Dakota) politely listened to the proponents of the Buffalo Commons concept and then politiely asked them to go back to New Jersey where they came from.
That does not stop the desire to implement this crap, not the actual implementation thereof, it just means they have to be sneakier.
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posted on
02/07/2008 10:20:14 AM PST
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
To: ER Doc
I saw a mountain lion while riding my mountain bike in San Mateo, CA. I got a good profile view for about 30 seconds as it stalked bunnies. The sinewy muscles were awe inspiring and looked super powerful; I would not want to scrap with one.
Heck, my housecat regularly attacks me, and she weighs 7 lbs; the cougar I saw looked about 110.
To: lmailbvmbipfwedu
"....Cool, send a few to northern Indiana. Maybe they can take care of the deer and goose problem....."
I would be happy to take care of that problem for you (I've gotten pretty good at that here in Maryland). Are you the affected landowner?
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posted on
02/07/2008 10:41:37 AM PST
by
Renfield
(Turning apples into venison since 1999!)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE; Renfield
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posted on
02/07/2008 10:42:08 AM PST
by
neverdem
(I have to hope for a brokered GOP Convention. It can't get any worse.)
To: Smokin' Joe
Great post. You have to understand the whole project behind placing large predators in the area. The Wildland Project is now re named the ReWilding Institute. Dave Foreman is on the board. Remember him Mr Eco-terrorist himself start the Earth First Journal wrote a book on eco-terrorism. In fact the Unabomber had a copy of the Earth First journal is his shed that he called a home. Now you research some more and will find the stated goal is to reduce the human population of America to 10 million people. Giving up everything else to the animals.
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posted on
02/07/2008 10:45:46 AM PST
by
Bruce 22-250
(Vote stop the WITCH!)
To: Renfield
Pffft. I saw a cougar at the bar the other night...
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posted on
02/07/2008 11:07:22 AM PST
by
jack_napier
(Bob? Gun.)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Some just might be happier with the predators, especially if they graduated in the last few years.
See post 30. This may seem like tinfoil hat stuff, but the UN has been behind global land management for decades, and their fellow travelers, environmentalists, and others have a vision of generally depopulating the rural heartland of America, or at least herding all the people into 'urban islands' with narrow transport corridors.
Of course, no one has mentioned where the food is going to come from when all that farmland and pasture goes to seed...
Another Buffalo Commons article which was written when the economy here took a severe and abrubt downturn in '99--oil was so low ($4.50/bbl for sour, $6.50/bbl for sweet) that for the first time in over 40 years there was no rig drilling for oil, farm prices were in the crapper, and in general two legs of the state's economy were in bad shape. Usually oil or agriculture does well, and rarely both, but seldom both are hurting as they were when the person who wrote the article saw the little towns which depend on both for sustenance.
Of course, the pendulum has gone in the other direction, now. Housing prices have trippled in many towns, and both agriculture and oil industries and related services are riding the wave.
It is always possible to see the bust cycles as one looks back, the old homesteads or farmhouses from past booms left to sit, even the areasclaimed as "wilderness" which are go-back land, homesteads ceded back to the government in the '30s during that bust.
The next time things go south, economically, the opportunists will be there with an imported cure-all, and some folks will leave. The rest will carefully shepherd their resources, continue through the tough times, and be here when conditions improve once more.
Since the first settlers came west, and even before, it has been this way.
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posted on
02/07/2008 11:16:49 AM PST
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
We got a female and at least one cub that come through our place in Stephens County.
They have taken a hankering for the feral piglets.
To: Renfield
No, I’m not a land owner over and above the automobiles that my wife and I drive. Thankfully the MX-5 and the Mini Cooper S are quick on their tires. Hardly a day goes by without several accidents involving deer. If I owned the land I have 12 Ga. that would do the talking. I have had, when my father owned a farm, no problem with sending Bambi to the happy grazing ground.
To: Renfield
"If it is determined to be wild, it would be the first [time the DNR is willing to admit] that cougars had returned to Wisconsin since the early 1900s."There has been some around Rice Lake for at least 20 years and Im aware of at least 1 outside of Pembine. Googling around finds alot of reports, some rather reliable, that they are all over the North half of the state.
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posted on
02/07/2008 12:34:18 PM PST
by
gnarledmaw
(It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration.)
To: Smokin' Joe
“See post 30. This may seem like tinfoil hat stuff, but the UN has been behind global land management for decades, and their fellow travelers, environmentalists, and others have a vision of generally depopulating the rural heartland of America, or at least herding all the people into ‘urban islands’ with narrow transport corridors.”
Would that be Agenda 21?
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posted on
02/07/2008 12:44:25 PM PST
by
dljordan
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