With mountain lions attacking hunters in Nebraska, it’s no surprise that they’ve moved east of the Mississippi into Illinois, and now there is some trail camera proof. According to Outdoor Hub, there have only been four confirmed cougar sightings in Illinois since 1870. And the latest came on October 28. Hunter Mark Cobb of Sherman [...]
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Florida Amping Up Panther Project
While states in the west are always dealing with cougar problems as those populations grow, and Florida wants to make their panthers and their people have limited interactions as those panther populations try to expand. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is partnering with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to help develop their [...]
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Trail Cam Proof: Are Cougars Living in Michigan?
A cougar siting isn’t unheard of in Michigan, but officials now believe that these roaming mountain lions are setting up their homes in the Wolverine State. According to the Outdoor Hub, there have been so many cougar sitings over a long period of time, that the Michigan Wildlife Conservancy has determined that not only are [...]
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Billionaire Pledges Largest Ever, 90,000 Acres of Protected Land in Colorado
Here’s a 1 percenter that the loud 99 percenters cannot complain about. In what President Obama called the “Largest single conservation donation” ever provided to the federal government and for all Americans to enjoy, a hedge-fund manager vowed to protect 90,000 acres of Colorado land from further development. Louis Bacon bought a massive amount of [...]
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Relocated Cougar Refuses to Leave Cage in Washington
It should have been as simple as opening a door, but a 2-year-old female cougar refused to run off after she was captured in Arlington, Washington and relocated back to the woods. It took wildlife officials half an hour to move the 100-pound mountain lion, who was hunkered down in the back of her transport. [...]
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Coyotes Triumph
Little Red Riding Hood should be watching her back for coyotes, not wolves. Fascinating story here from Nature magazine via Scientific American about the ascent of coyotes, who’ve filled a vacuum created by the demise of wolves, cougars and bobcats. Here’s an excerpt from Sharon Levy’s article: “Researchers have long known the coyote as a [...]
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Utah Auctions Off Poached Antlers, Skulls, and Other Goods
Sadly, the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources has a lot of a trophies that they’ve had to confiscate because they were taken illegally. So, in order to get rid of some inventory and raise some money to beef up anti-poaching efforts, the DWR held an auction on Tuesday, May 8, to anyone looking to pick [...]
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California Seeking Poacher Who Killed Mountain Lion and Sawed Off His Paws
Someone called the California Highway Patrol a week ago on Tuesday, April 24 to report a deer hit on the side of U.S. Route 101 near Buellton in Central California’s Santa Barbara County. Instead what they found was a mountain lion, and when the state Fish and Game officer reached the scene, they realized they were [...]
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Will Cougar Hunting be Legalized in Nebraska?
There is a bill before the Nebraska legislature that would make it legal for the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission to start a cougar hunt, but even if it's passed, it's not certain there will be a season in 2012. NGPC officials are relying on survey numbers before committing to a cougar season. And it's [...]
Big Cats Chasing Laser Pointers
Hats off to the good people at Big Cat Rescue in Tampa, Fla, for the work they do in providing sanctuary to large cats (tigers, lions, leopards, cougars,bobcats, lynx, servals, ocelots, and caracals) who have been abandoned by owners who thought they'd make good pets or who've lost their performing jobs in circuses. They currently [...]
