Panthera, MLF and National Geographic Team Up
Posted in Action Alert, Education, Hunting, Trapping, Wyoming on Feb 8th, 2016
Wyoming’s Proposed Trapping Bill
Category Archive for 'Hunting'
Effects of Cougar Sport Hunting
Posted in Education, Hunting, Livestock attacks, Preservation, Washington on Dec 31st, 2013
WSU’s Large Carnivore Conservation Lab is at the cutting edge of proving how predator populations police themselves. How sport hunting quotas that exceed reproduction rates lead to increased conflicts by removing the breeding adults that keep order, research we continue to submit to state agencies stuck in 19th-century fantasies of predator management. Heres’ the Lab’s […]
Cougar Rewilding Foundation August 2013 Newsletter
Posted in Cougar Rewilding Foundation, Education, Hunting, Nebraska, Questionable control killings, Recolonization on Aug 27th, 2013
No Exit: Nebraska Shuts Another Door East
2013 Recommendations for Mountain Lion Hunting Based Neither on Experience Nor Science
Posted in Co-existence, Cougar Rewilding Foundation, Hunting, Nebraska, Recolonization on Jul 25th, 2013
Since our previous post on the subject, we received a gracious response to our hunting proposal questions from Sam Wilson at Nebraska Game and Parks, including a clarification of the number of cougars killed in Nebraska for reasons of threat and safety: 19 since 1999. Most of those were cougars wandering into residential neighborhoods, where […]
Stop the Nebraska Hunt: Proposal Not Based on Experience or Science
Posted in Action Alert, Hunting, Nebraska on Jul 20th, 2013
Nebraska Game & Parks concludes their 2013 Recommendations for Mountain Lion Hunting with these words: “The Commission intends to manage mountain lion populations over time with consideration given to social acceptance, effects on prey populations, depredation on pets and livestock, and human safety.” Public attitude surveys about cougars in Nebraska are absent from the Recommendations. […]
Nebraska Hunt on Hold
Posted in Government Agency, Hunting, Nebraska on May 26th, 2013
The decision on a limited hunt proposed for the Pine Ridge National Forest of Nebraska was delayed Friday pending review of public and written comments by Nebraska Game and Parks Commissioners. CRF commented questioning whether the proposal to take 2 males and 1 female of an estimated 22 cats was below the 14% take recommended […]
2013 Black Hills’ Hunt Misses Quota
Posted in Cougar Rewilding Foundation, Government Agency, Hunting, S. Dakota on Apr 3rd, 2013
As many predicted, as we predicted, despite SDGF& P’s re-estimate raising the Black Hills cougar census, and after several years of unsustainable quotas, 2013’s hunt came up significantly short of the 100 cat quota; 35 short of the female sub quota. However, an additional 17 cats were killed during the hunt for other reasons, at […]
Effects of Sport Hunting on Cougar Populations
Posted in Co-existence, Education, Hunting, Livestock attacks, Preservation, Washington on Feb 27th, 2013
Washington State University’s Large Carnivore Conservation Lab has provided 15 years of research on cougar social dynamics. As we’ve pointed out previously, their results have demonstrated how sport hunting (which tends to target ordering big toms) shreds the cougar’s social network and increases conflicts with pets, livestock and us. The conclusion to this video, which […]