> Whiskey Tango Foxtrot! Introducing exotic species can lead to an environmental disaster—as when rabbits were introduced into Australia.
I always thought that jaguars were some exotic species from South and Central America until I met a WW2 vet about a dozen years ago, who shot one.
Prior to WW2, jaguars were found across the United States with occasional very rare sightings as far East as the Carolinas. However, they were mostly in the South West and there were only a few thousand of them. Then in the very early 50s the Interior Department decided that they were too big and too dangerous and put a bounty on them. Like the wolves. The jaguars were hunted to extinction for the bounty.
Now some wacko liberals wants to reintroduce them. We don’t need a big cat that makes a puma look like a house cat. These are big very dangerous critters and the government was right to get rid of them.
Are the jaguars bigger than regular mountain lions such as the ones in the western part of the country?
That was my initial reaction, but that is apparently not the case.
Negatory! I and others have seen one on the coast of Oregon within the last 10 years. It was a very large dark cat 1/3 to 1/2 again as large as any cougar I have ever seen. Including tail in length, it was as long as one lane of the two way road I was driving on. It was crossing the Siletz Hwy by the truck scale area between Siletz and Toledo. I repeat that I am not the only person to have seen the big cat and can give another witnesses name.
An established population along the southwest border might prove as effective as a moat filled with alligators at keeping intruders out.
The Green Formula is: man = bad.