Fw: [Spirit of the Blue Feather] Yayyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!

AGAIN ! THE JAPANESE JUST WONT STOP. Date: Friday, February 24, 2012, 2:46 PM Nile Nugnez posted in Spirit of the Blue Feather. Nile Nugnez 6:46am Feb 24 Yayyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!! Amazon removes whale meat products from Japanese site www.guardian.co.uk Public outcry forces online retailer to ditch products including whale bacon, whale jerky and canned... View Post on Facebook · Edit Email Settings · Reply to this email to add a comment.

Fw: [The Invisible Tribe] lease sign petition and SHARE SHARE SHARE with...

HELLO MY FRIEND'S WONT YOU HELP STOP THE SLAUGHTER OF THE WOLVE'S, PLEASE JOIN US AND SIGN THIS PETITION. I THANK YOU Carol DeMaula Carraturo posted in The Invisible Tribe. Carol DeMaula Carraturo 7:59am Feb 24 lease sign petition and SHARE SHARE SHARE with your friends to save the wolves and their pups and to save small dogs and cats from being used as bait. This petition has all in it snares, traps, ATVs, Snowmobiles, Helicopters Etc. all in one petition. So Please read it and sign and SHARE SHARE SHARE to help us reach our goal Thank you all. To Stop the Inhumane cruelty to wolves - The Petition Site www.thepetitionsite.com The worldwide human encroachment on wild areas, the ever growing agriculture and hunting industries,... View Post on Facebook · Edit Email Settings · Reply to this email to add a comment.

Fw: [No Bear Hunt NV] URGENT INCLINE ALERT: The Bear League reports...

HERE'S THE LATEST NEW'S FROM THE LAKE TAHOE AREA AND NOBEARHUNTNV.ORG PLEASE GET THE WORD OUT. THE BATTLE CONTINUE'S TO SAVE THE BEAR'S IN THE LAKE TAHOE VALLEY. From: Kathryn Bricker <notification+zrdozdfrhcf1@facebookmail.com> Subject: [No Bear Hunt NV] URGENT INCLINE ALERT: The Bear League reports... To: "No Bear Hunt NV" <nobearhuntnv@groups.facebook.com> Date: Sunday, February 19, 2012, 7:41 PM Kathryn Bricker posted in No Bear Hunt NV. Kathryn Bricker 11:41am Feb 19 URGENT INCLINE ALERT: The Bear League reports that there was a trap set on Bronco Ct (right off of Saddlehorn Dr) last night by NDOW in response to resident's complaints. Bear League is trying to get the word out so people will drive by and make it evident that the community is onto their plans to kill the local bears. Please obey all laws and be respectful. Are candelight vigils ever held before the death? View Post on Facebook · Edit Email Settings · Reply to this email to add a comment.

Fw: [Spirit of the Blue Feather] Beings being beings~

INSPIRATIONAL MESSAGE OF THE DAY. WISE NATIVE AMERICAN PROVERB TO LIVE BY. Wysteria Whisper posted in Spirit of the Blue Feather. Wysteria Whisper 2:27pm Feb 19 Beings being beings~ Wall Photos ☮ ❤ ☼ One thing to remember is to talk to the animals. If you do, they will talk back to you. But i... View Post on Facebook · Edit Email Settings · Reply to this email to add a comment.

Fw: [Spirit of the Blue Feather] New link

THIS WAS SENT TO ME ON FACEBOOK AND THROUGH MY EMAIL. I WILL LET YOU DECIDE IF YOU THINK THAT THIS IS THE BEST SPEECH EVER MADE ON ANIMAL RIGHT'S AND VEGANISM ? I HOPE THAT YOU CAN GET THE LINK TO WORK SO THAT YOU CAN WATCH IT ? From: Armando Rios <notification+zrdozdfrhcf1@facebookmail.com> Subject: [Spirit of the Blue Feather] New link To: "Spirit of the Blue Feather" <265450320136982@groups.facebook.com> Date: Sunday, February 19, 2012, 10:33 PM Armando Rios posted in Spirit of the Blue Feather. Armando Rios 2:33pm Feb 19 Best Speech You Will Ever Hear - Gary Yourofsky www.youtube.com Gary Yourofsky's entire inspirational speech on animal rights and veganism held at Georgia Tech in s... View Post on Facebook · Edit Email Settings · Reply to this email to add a comment.

Fw: Coyotes,Wolves,Cougars..forever!

HERE'S THE LATEST FROM RICK MERIL AND WOLVES,COUGARS, COYOTES FOREVER. --- On Sun, 2/19/12, Wolves, Wolf Facts, Cougars, Cougar Facts, Coyotes, Coyote Facts - Wolves, Cougars, Coyotes Forever <rick.meril@gmail.com> wrote: From: Wolves, Wolf Facts, Cougars, Cougar Facts, Coyotes, Coyote Facts - Wolves, Cougars, Coyotes Forever <rick.meril@gmail.com> Subject: Coyotes,Wolves,Cougars..forever! To: RANDAL_MASSARO@YAHOO.COM Date: Sunday, February 19, 2012, 5:17 PM Coyotes,Wolves,Cougars..forever! More Whitetail deer bucks were taken by hunters in 2010 than in 2009, according to the data from 35 states compiled in the 2012 Whitetail Report by the Quality Deer Management Association........... The 60-page report (pdf) below) lists information on deer taken,, species' range, sex ratio, and other popular management topics in the United States and Canada.......Of course, even though deer are at densities two or more times historicical pre-settlement levels, writer Agnieszka Spieszny insists on putting a negative spotlight on Coyotes and Bears, suggesting that these trophic carnivores are limiting agents of Whitetails........Ms. Spieszny, the evidence does not back up your hypothesis...........Instead, you should be writing about the fact that Wolves and Pumas need to be back on the ground across the USA if in fact we are to have healthy forest regeneration, minimize lymes disease and ultimately to have the fleetest, wildest and healthiest deer herds on our landscape..............Deer without Wolves and Pumas chasing and stalking them are like domesticated cattle,,,,,,,,,,,not the fleet of foot/graceful hoofed browsers that historically graced our woodlands and fields One more shout out and a fine opportunity to watch and listen to Cristina Eisenberg defend her PHD thesis in Wildlife Mgmt to a team of Oregon State Professors this Wednesday Feb 22---streaming live this coming Wednesday 2/22 at 130pm Pacific time............Tune in and watch Cristina "wow em"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Daniel Richards, President of the California fish and Game Commission typifies the problem we face in managing our wildlife at the State level.........As a rule, Game Commisioners are selected by the Govenor of each State...........Most often, the Govenors dole out political favors to people who are favorites of the hunting and livestock communities---the very communities that donate large pools of $$ to support the Govenors bid for election and re-election............This lobbyist payback is a "kryptonite arrow" into the heart of carnivore rewilding and scientifically based predator and prey management................Mr Richards is full dislosure regarding his feelings about Pumas being a protected species in his home State: ""I'm glad it's lega(hunting and killing Pumas)l in Idaho," said Richards....................Assemblyman Jared Huffman, D-San Rafael, chairman of the Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee, said Friday he is considering introducing a resolution in the Legislature to remove Richards. "He's thumbing his nose at California law," Huffman said. "He's mocking it. Frankly, I think he should face the music and step down. He's done something that's a disgrace to his position and to responsible hunters in California."...........California has an enlightened perspective on the hunting of carnivores: Environmental and animal welfare groups that wrote and passed the ballot measure in 1990 banning lion hunting argued that the practice is cruel and unnecessary, because unlike with deer, turkeys and other game, hunters do not eat lions. And they argued it upsets the balance of predators and prey. Hunting groups attempted to overturn the measure in 1996, but voters again chose to keep lion hunting illegal.... More Whitetail deer bucks were taken by hunters in 2010 than in 2009, according to the data from 35 states compiled in the 2012 Whitetail Report by the Quality Deer Management Association........... The 60-page report (pdf) below) lists information on deer taken,, species' range, sex ratio, and other popular management topics in the United States and Canada.......Of course, even though deer are at densities two or more times historicical pre-settlement levels, writer Agnieszka Spieszny insists on putting a negative spotlight on Coyotes and Bears, suggesting that these trophic carnivores are limiting agents of Whitetails........Ms. Spieszny, the evidence does not back up your hypothesis...........Instead, you should be writing about the fact that Wolves and Pumas need to be back on the ground across the USA if in fact we are to have healthy forest regeneration, minimize lymes disease and ultimately to have the fleetest, wildest and healthiest deer herds on our landscape..............Deer without Wolves and Pumas chasing and stalking them are like domesticated cattle,,,,,,,,,,,not the fleet of foot/graceful hoofed browsers that historically graced our woodlands and fields Posted: 18 Feb 2012 10:48 PM PST Key Statistics from the 2012 QDMA Whitetail Deer Report by Agnieszka Spieszny outdoorhub.com  More bucks were harvested in 2010 than in 2009, according to the data from 35 states compiled in the 2012 Whitetail Report by the Quality Deer Management Association. The 60-page report (pdf) lists information on harvests, species' range, sex ratio, and other popular management topics in the United States and Canada. In this article, I've compiled a short list of highlights of whitetail deer statistics below.     Antlered Buck Harvest Buck harvest for all the regions of the United States in 2010 was 2,776,867. Canada's total harvest for 6 providences (Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan) was 116,147. The top five states for the 2010 antlered buck harvest were Texas with 357,378 bucks, Michigan – 212,341, Georgia – 155,255, Wisconsin – 148,378 and Alabama – 129,000. The top five states for 2010 buck harvest per square mile were Texas at 5.8 bucks per square mile, South Carolina – 4.8, Wisconsin – 4.4, Indiana – 4.3 and Georgia – 4.1. Buck Harvest Age Structure Western states did not report their harvested buck age data, therefore they are excluded from the findings. The top six states with the lowest yearling-buck harvest rates are Kansas at 9 percent of all harvested bucks being yearlings, Arkansas – 10 percent, Louisiana – 17, Missouri – 17, and Rhode Island and Texas which both averaged 22 percent yearling bucks. The top five states with the highest harvest of 3½-year-old and older bucks were Arkansas with a 68 percent of bucks that were taken were 3½ or older, Louisiana – 65 percent, Texas – 59 percent, Kansas – 56 percent and Oklahoma with 51 percent. Antlerless Harvest Antlerless harvest totaled 3,347,150 in the United States. In six Canadian provinces (Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan) the total harvest amount was 80,587. The top five states for antlerless harvest in 2010 were Texas with 330,698, Georgia with 308,747, Alabama with 208,000, Michigan 205,509 and Pennsylvania with 193,310. Deer Predators Coyotes have the most significant impact on fawn survival and recruitment rate. Every state and part of Canada allows coyote hunting within set perimeters except for the state of Delaware, which does not allow coyote hunting.(California also does not have a sanctioned hunt--blogger Rick) coyotes and bears will take fawns in the Spring & Summer but "prey swamping(mass births) and odorless fawns in most cases allow for a healthy fawn recruitment to take place....... Historically, deer survived the simultaneous suite of carnivores wolves/pumas/bears/coyotes/ that shared home turf with them       In response to coyote predation, the following states have increased opportunity or changed their management model in the last five years: South Carolina, Maine, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, North Dakota, South Dakota and Manitoba in Canada             Fawn Recruitment Rates The top five states for fawn recruitment in 2010 were Iowa at a ratio of 1 fawn to 30 adult doe, Wisconsin at 1:7, South Dakota at 0:95, South Carolina at 0:88 and Ohio at 0:81. Hemorrhagic Disease Outbreak The most significant viral disease affecting whitetails annually is hemorrhagic disease (HD). The outbreak of HD in the summer of 2011 was the not as bad as the 2007 outbreak that was the worst in 50 years, but it did affect deer in at least 18 states. Thirteen states confirmed HD by the time of this report. Suspected and confirmed states with hemorrhagic disease in 2011 include Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Florida, Alabama and Louisiana. The Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study is conducting research into the disease and will release their full report on the 2011 outbreak in November 2012. Hunting License Sales Hunting license sales have increased. About 4.9 percent of the United States population purchases a hunting license in any given year. From 2008 to 2009 each region of the United States saw more licenses purchased. The U.S. total for license sales in 2009 was 14,973,528. License sales increased every year from 2006 to 2009 in Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, and North Carolina. The states where license sales decreased for two to three periods were California, New Mexico, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Virginia, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire. Hunting Numbers Increase With More Women Hunting At one point in time, the report admits that hunting numbers have steadily declined between 1979 and 2009, but speculates that the hunting industry may have made it across that hurdle. With more and more women hunting each year, hunting numbers have seen an uptick. QDMA credits the National Shooting Sports Foundation for their data that women hunters increased by 653,000 from 2002 to 2009, totaling 3,204,000 women hunters. Visit http://coyotes-wolves-cougars.blogspot.com

One more shout out and a fine opportunity to watch and listen to Cristina Eisenberg defend her PHD thesis in Wildlife Mgmt to a team of Oregon State Professors this Wednesday Feb 22---streaming live this coming Wednesday 2/22 at 130pm Pacific time............Tune in and watch Cristina "wow em"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Posted: 18 Feb 2012 10:49 PM PST Hello all, My school has arranged to have my doctoral defense live streamed. Those of you unable to attend who have time and interest will be able to watch. All you need is high-speed Internet access. Here is the link to my defense, which will be live-streamed on Feb. 22, 2012, 1:30 PST via OSU Live: http://live.oregonstate.edu/ Thank you all for your good wishes and encouragement. Cristina Eisenberg PhD Candidate Boone & Crockett Fellow High Lonesome Ranch Research Director Oregon State University College of Forestry (406)270-5153 The Wolf's Tooth Published in 2010 by Island Press http://www.wolfstooth.com http://fes.forestry.oregonstate.edu/grad-students/eisenberg-cristina Visit http://coyotes-wolves-cougars.blogspot.com

Daniel Richards, President of the California fish and Game Commission typifies the problem we face in managing our wildlife at the State level.........As a rule, Game Commisioners are selected by the Govenor of each State...........Most often, the Govenors dole out political favors to people who are favorites of the hunting and livestock communities---the very communities that donate large pools of $$ to support the Govenors bid for election and re-election............This lobbyist payback is a "kryptonite arrow" into the heart of carnivore rewilding and scientifically based predator and prey management................Mr Richards is full dislosure regarding his feelings about Pumas being a protected species in his home State: ""I'm glad it's lega(hunting and killing Pumas)l in Idaho," said Richards....................Assemblyman Jared Huffman, D-San Rafael, chairman of the Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee, said Friday he is considering introducing a resolution in the Legislature to remove Richards. "He's thumbing his nose at California law," Huffman said. "He's mocking it. Frankly, I think he should face the music and step down. He's done something that's a disgrace to his position and to responsible hunters in California."...........California has an enlightened perspective on the hunting of carnivores: Environmental and animal welfare groups that wrote and passed the ballot measure in 1990 banning lion hunting argued that the practice is cruel and unnecessary, because unlike with deer, turkeys and other game, hunters do not eat lions. And they argued it upsets the balance of predators and prey. Hunting groups attempted to overturn the measure in 1996, but voters again chose to keep lion hunting illegal.... Posted: 18 Feb 2012 11:01 PM PST California wildlife official in hot water over mountain lion hunt Paul Rogers mercurynews.com One of California's top wildlife officials found himself in the political line of fire Friday, after a photo surfaced showing him holding a dead mountain lion he killed in what appeared to be a recent big game hunt. Daniel W. Richards, president of the California Fish and Game Commission, shot the lion in Northern Idaho. The photo was posted on the website of Western Outdoor News, a hunting and fishing publication. Mountain lion hunting has been illegal in California since 1990, when voters passed Proposition 117. Within hours of the photo appearing, callers deluged the state Fish and Game Commission office, and the Humane Society of the United States urged Richards to step down. "It's not illegal. But he's thumbed his nose at the people of California," said Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of the Humane Society. "He's supposed to be representing the interests of all California citizens. It seems like such a tone-deaf action. What part of 'no' doesn't he understand?" Richards did not respond to requests for an interview. But on the Western Outdoor News website, Richards, 59, is quoted as saying that he shot the lion with a Winchester Centennial .45 carbine on Flying B Ranch. The 5,000-acre property in Northern Idaho charges $6,800 per person for a 7-day lion hunt. "I'm glad it's legal in Idaho," said Richards, who is a life member of the National Rifle Association. A San Bernardino County Republican appointed  to the five-member commission by former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2008, Richards has been its most outspoken advocate for expanding hunting, often clashing with environmental and animal welfare groups. As president, Richards can set the commission's agenda on a range of issues including endangered species protections, ocean fishing rules and all types of hunting regulations from rabbits to black bears. If he were to bring the dead mountain lion back to California from Idaho, he would be in violation of state law. Proposition 117 banned the possession of mountain lion parts or trophies killed after 1990. Last year, Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill creating a narrow exemption for museums to display lions killed under permits from the state Fish and Game Department. The governor cannot remove any member of the Fish and Game Commission. However, the state Legislature can, with a simple majority vote. Assemblyman Jared Huffman, D-San Rafael, chairman of the Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee, said Friday he is considering introducing a resolution in the Legislature to remove Richards. "He's thumbing his nose at California law," Huffman said. "He's mocking it. Frankly, I think he should face the music and step down. He's done something that's a disgrace to his position and to responsible hunters in California." Environmental and animal welfare groups that wrote and passed the ballot measure in 1990 banning lion hunting argued that the practice is cruel and unnecessary, because unlike with deer, turkeys and other game, hunters do not eat lions. And they argued it upsets the balance of predators and prey. Hunting groups attempted to overturn the measure in 1996, but voters again chose to keep lion hunting illegal Richards' term expires next January. He was voted president earlier this month in an odd 2-0 vote in which two commissioners who disagree with his views, Mike Sutton and Jack Baylis, abstained, while the former president, Jim Kellogg, whose term as president expired, supported him. One commissioner, Richard Rogers, was absent due to an Achilles tendon injury. Rogers said Friday he is likely to support another vote to choose a new president at a commission meeting in the next month or two. If Richards is removed, the current vice president, Michael Sutton, a biologist who works for the Monterey Bay Aquarium, would become president. Meanwhile, Richards is facing more political fallout.In 2010, his former business partner was indicted, along with three other men, on charges of bribery, conflict of interest, tax fraud, tax evasion, perjury and forgery. San Bernardino County prosecutors said the indicted men worked to corrupt public officials in connection with a $102 million settlement in a land development deal. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Effects of Hunting on Cougar Population Ecology Hilary Cooley, H.S. Robinson, B.T. Maletzke, G.M. Koehler, R.B. Wielgus & others This project was part of Hilary Cooley’s, Hugh Robinson’s,and Ben Maletzke’s Ph.D. programs. We compared a heavily-hunted (Kettle Falls WA) and a very lightly hunted population (Cle Elum WA) to test for differences in population demography. We examined male mortality, male immigration, female maternity, cub survival, female survival, and population growth rates to test the “closed population, increased reproduction” or “open population, decreased reproduction” hypotheses of population regulation in large carnivore populations. (See hunting of grizzlies in Completed Projects).  High mortality of resident adult males resulted in increasing numbers of potentially infanticidal immigrant males, decreasing numbers of juveniles and females, but no net change in total cougar numbers. Low mortality resulted in high emigration of younger animals, stable numbers of juveniles, females, and males, and no net change in total cougar numbers. Hunting did not reduce total numbers or densities of cougars, as commonly thought, because of male immigration. Lack of hunting did not increase total numbers or densities of cougars, as commonly thought, because of emigration. Hunting caused a shift in the sex and age structure towards younger males and a female population decline. Our results support the open population, decreased reproduction hypothesis of cougar population regulation. . Visit http://coyotes-wolves-cougars.blogspot.com

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Fw: [Taiji Dolphin Action Group] Sea Shepherd @SeaShepherd

THE FIGHT TO SAVE THE WHALES, DOLPHIN'S, AND OTHER SEA LIFE CONTINUE'S. HERE'S THE LATEST FROM JAN DONOVAN AND THE SEA SHEPERD AS THEY TRACK  THE JAPANESE KILLER BOAT'S. LET'S WISH THEM LUCK AS THEY CONTINUE TO BE THORN'S IN THE SIDE OF THE JAPANESE FACTORY SHIP'S THAT CONTINUE TO DECIMATE OUR SEA LIFE. THIS FIGHT IS FAR FROM OVER AS THE JAPANESE, RUSSIAN'S, NORWEIGIAN'S, AND PIRATE SHIP;S FROM VARIOUS COUNTRIE'S HAVE NO REGARD FOR WHAT THEY KILL OR WHAT GET'S CAUGHT IN THEIR NET'S. THESE PEOPLE WILL CONTINUE TO SLAUGHTER EVERYTHING THAT SWIM'S OR MOVE'S UNTIL IT'S ALL GONE, AND THEN GO ON TO SOMETHING ELSE. From: Jan Donovan <notification+zrdozdfrhcf1@facebookmail.com> Subject: [Taiji Dolphin Action Group] Sea Shepherd @SeaShepherd To: "Taiji Dolphin Action Group" <taijiactiongroup@groups.facebook.com> Date: Sunday, February 19, 2012, 9:42 PM Jan Donovan posted in Taiji Dolphin Action Group. Jan Donovan 1:42pm Feb 19 Sea Shepherd @SeaShepherd Taiji: 10 murder boats just departed from Taiji harbor to hunt for Dolphins. Erwin is free. 6:38am Feb 20, 2012 #tweet4taiji View Post on Facebook · Edit Email Settings · Reply to this email to add a comment.

Fw: [Spirit of the Blue Feather] This is why.

NATIVE AMERICAN'S AND WILDLIFE ACTIVIST'S ARE JOINING FORCE'S AGAIN, THIS TIME TO BOYCOTT THE MOVIE AAAAAAAAAAAA' THE GREY" AS IT DEPICT'S WOLVE'S AS BLOOD THIRSTY ANIMAL'S THAT KILL , JUST TO KILL. ONCE MORE--THE BIG BAD WOLF SYNDROME IS IN FULL SWING. IT'S UP TO EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US TO DECIDE IF WE WISH TO BOYCOTT THIS MOVIE AND IT'S EXPLOITATION  OF WOLVE'S AND HOW THEY ARE DEPICTED AND POTRAYED.  THE FACT THAT WOLVE'S CANT SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES'S OR DEFEND THEMSELVE'S AGAINST MAN. THE CHOICE IS ULTIMATELY YOUR'S--YOU DECIDE. From: Asia Kik <notification+zrdozdfrhcf1@facebookmail.com> Subject: [Spirit of the Blue Feather] This is why. To: "Spirit of the Blue Feather" <265450320136982@groups.facebook.com> Date: Saturday, February 11, 2012, 4:51 PM Asia Kik posted in Spirit of the Blue Feather. Asia Kik 8:51am Feb 11 This is why. Petition is at the bottom of this page when you open the link Why We Will Boycott “The Grey”. Fb group is here: https://www.facebook.com/BoycottTheGrey http://www.care2.com/causes/why-we-will-boycott-the-grey.html Why We Will Boycott "The Grey" www.care2.com Liam Neeson's latest movie depicts wolves as ruthless and relentless man-killers. Wolves have long b... View Post on Facebook · Edit Email Settings · Reply to this email to add a comment.

Fw: Coyotes,Wolves,Cougars..forever!

HERE'S THE LATEST WILDLIFE NEW'S FROM  MY FRIEND RICK MERIL AND HIS WEBSITE--TAKE A LOOK --- On Sat, 2/4/12, Wolves, Wolf Facts, Cougars, Cougar Facts, Coyotes, Coyote Facts - Wolves, Cougars, Coyotes Forever <rick.meril@gmail.comDate: Saturday, February 4, 2012, 5:15 PM Coyotes,Wolves,Cougars..forever! Utah State Wildlife Professor Daniel MacNulty has studied Yellowstone Wolves for 16 years............He revealed to National Geographic that the depiction of Wolf behavior in the theatrical film, THE GREY, is complete and total b.s. and misrepresentative of how wolves behave...."would wolves see men as prey and stalk them in the wild?",,,,,,"In my 16 years of studying wolves in Yellowstone National Park, I have never been approached by a wolf or wolf pack. On the contrary, when I've inadvertently bumped into wolves they turn and run away—which is a problem when my objective is to observe them!" U. of Alberta biology student Sarah Rovang is conducting an Alberta, Canada Grizzly Bear study in the hopes of helping the Province increase the population(roughly 700 bears remain) of the "threatened" bruin .........Rovang does not believe in invasive capture and release analysis but prefers the less invasive and less costly "hair snag" DNA testing procedure and has designed a barbed wire corral that she baits with beef blood, canola oil, logs and moss........... While a new study funded by The National Science Foundation et al has shown that when domestic cats reside in areas where Pumas, Bobcats and Lynx are present, wildlife diseases like Bartonellosis,Toxoplasmosis and Feline immunodefiency virus can be spread from housecat to humans........"As human development encroaches on natural habitat, wildlife species that live there may be susceptible to diseases we or our domestic animals carry and spread," said Kevin Crooks, a biologist at Colorado State and co-leader of the project.........."At the same time, wildlife can harbor diseases that humans and our pets can in turn get. Diseases may be increasingly transmitted as former natural areas are developed." The way I see it, it is incumbent upon us to keep our cats on a leash and not let out to run wild in the woods........Not only are our cats killing untold number of birds and small critters, but by us letting them into wild spaces, we are condeming our native wild cats to destruction from disease as well as ignorant folks calling for the wild cats to be killed(with the excuse being that Pumas, Bobcats and Lynx are killing our pets) Utah State Wildlife Professor Daniel MacNulty has studied Yellowstone Wolves for 16 years............He revealed to National Geographic that the depiction of Wolf behavior in the theatrical film, THE GREY, is complete and total b.s. and misrepresentative of how wolves behave...."would wolves see men as prey and stalk them in the wild?",,,,,,"In my 16 years of studying wolves in Yellowstone National Park, I have never been approached by a wolf or wolf pack. On the contrary, when I've inadvertently bumped into wolves they turn and run away—which is a problem when my objective is to observe them!" Posted: 04 Feb 2012 12:02 AM PST WOULD REAL WOLVES ACT LIKE THOSE IN THE THEATRICAL FILM, "THE GREY?" Nationalgeographic.com Marc Silver The nominal star of The Grey, America's top-grossing film, is Liam Neeson. The real stars are the hungry wolves that pursue him and his fellow plane-crash survivors through Alaska's pristine wilderness. The CGI-enhanced wolves are big, smart, and scary. But is their behavior based in reality? To parse wolf fact from fiction, Pop Omnivore caught up with Daniel MacNulty, a wildlife-ecology professor at Utah State University whose research on Arctic wolves is funded in part by the National Geographic Society. First off, would wolves see men as prey and stalk them in the wild? I'd think that in a remote area like this one, wolves might fear or avoid humans. In my 16 years of studying wolves in Yellowstone National Park, I have never been approached by a wolf or wolf pack. On the contrary, when I've inadvertently bumped into wolves they turn and run away—which is a problem when my objective is to observe them! One of the characters in the movie says these wolves a) have a 300-mile hunting radius, b) will attack anything that comes near their den, and c) "are the only animal that will seek revenge." Is any of that that true? No. Nonsense, all of it. Would a wolf attack a man standing next to a fire, with other men nearby, as happens in The Grey? Not a chance. At one point two men are running alongside a riverbank in the middle of the day. Two wolves race out of the trees and charge them. Possible? No. Some of the wolves in the movie are huge—not Twilight size, but larger than I'd expect. How big can a gray wolf get? In Yellowstone, the average weight of adult male wolves ranges between 100 and 120 pounds. The average weight of adult female wolves ranges between 84 and 93 pounds. Do wolf eyes really glow in the dark, as they do in this movie? The eyes of wolves and many other wildlife appear to "glow in the dark" because of a layer of tissue in the eye called the tapetum lucidum. It reflects visible light back through the retina, which improves vision in low-light conditions. So when light shines into the eye of an animal [with] a tapetum lucidum, the pupil appears to glow. The cooperative hunting nature of the pack is played up a lot in this film. Is that accurate? The extent to which wolves cooperate while hunting in a pack is greatly exaggerated. In a recent study, I showed that wolves are often freeloaders. That is, most wolves keep up with a hunt simply to be on hand when a kill is made. Imagine tackling a moose or bison with only your teeth, and you can start to appreciate the incentive a wolf has to hold back during a group hunt. Speaking of cooperation, in one scene a lone wolf enters the men's nighttime camp. The protagonist says it's an omega wolf "sent in" by the alpha wolf to test the humans' defenses. Does anything like that ever happen with wolf packs? No. This is pure fiction. At the end of the movie, the hero finds himself in the wolves' den. It's littered with bones and carcasses. Is that a realistic depiction? In the dens I've examined, most of the bones and carcass remains are on the outside of the den rather than in the inside. In the final scene, the protagonist prepares to fight the alpha wolf. He tapes broken mini liquor bottles to his hands. Would that give him a chance against a large male gray wolf? If I was lucky enough to encounter a large male gray wolf in the wild, he would turn and run before I could tape the first bottle to my hand. Most people don't realize this, but wolves are wimps. Visit http://coyotes-wolves-cougars.blogspot.com

U. of Alberta biology student Sarah Rovang is conducting an Alberta, Canada Grizzly Bear study in the hopes of helping the Province increase the population(roughly 700 bears remain) of the "threatened" bruin .........Rovang does not believe in invasive capture and release analysis but prefers the less invasive and less costly "hair snag" DNA testing procedure and has designed a barbed wire corral that she baits with beef blood, canola oil, logs and moss........... Posted: 03 Feb 2012 11:54 PM PST Local works to improve grizzly research By Paul Grigaitis; edsonleader.com A graduate of Edson's Parkland Composite High School is now analyzing grizzly bear DNA collected using a method she hopes to prove will save conservation groups and government money. Sarah Rovang, now a masters student studying conservation biology at the University of Alberta, worked in the Hinton, Robb and Cadomin areas throughout the summer collecting hair from grizzly bears using barbed-wire corrals baited with rancid beef blood mixed with canola oil, logs and moss. The data is used to determine what is happening with the grizzly bear population in Alberta. In 2010, the Alberta government designated the grizzly bear as a threatened species under Alberta's Wildlife Act. Rovang tells the Leader that the population of grizzly bears in Alberta is in its hundreds. "We really don't know since then if the population has been increasing or decreasing or remaining constant. That's pretty important to know when you are trying to make conservation or management decisions. So we really would like to know that," she said. Collecting hair snags for DNA is not new. It is considered less invasive than drugging, capturing and collaring animals. However, the practice has been to use mobile plots, Rovang explained, which is costly because it uses expensive equipment such as helicopters. "The research that was done before to get those estimates kind of required substantial resources – time and money. You can't just go out and do the same thing and to get information. So to understand what the population is doing, we had to kind of take a step back and try a cost-effective way to monitor." Rovang believes a fixed method of gathering DNA samples could be just as effective but less costly. "To come up with those initial estimates they did use a hair snag method similar to mine but they had mobile plots where they would set up hair snags, they would detect a grizzly bear, or not maybe, but they would check that site and then take it down and they would move it somewhere else and they would just keep doing that –setting them up and taking them down. That's pretty effort intensive and costly. So I was testing this modified hair snag method where we just had a network of permanent plots." The challenge is making sure the permanent plots are well placed, she explained. She said she would compare her data with previous research to determine if there is some money to be saved. Rovang had collected 664 tufts of hair through the summer. "We're hoping to investigate kind of a trade off between the monitoring costs and how well we detected grizzly bears. We're trying to figure out what time of year is best to do it and where exactly we should be placing these relative to habitat and answering those types of questions. Hopefully, these results can kind of form the basis for a cost-effective and long-term monitoring program." Rovang worked out of the Foothills Research Institute in Hinton during the summer. Gordon Stenhouse is a research scientist and leader of the grizzly bear program at the Foothills Research Institute. He said the estimated population of grizzly bears in Alberta in 2010 was about 730. He said the biggest threat to the grizzly bears population is human contact."Biologists for the most part agree that the current population size and status is a direct result of excessive human caused mortalities – bears dying at the hands of people." He said Rovang's work is important in understanding the trends in grizzly bear populations. "Her work ties directly into the management of this species in the province," Stenhouse said. Rovang is 22 years old. She graduated from Parkland Composite High School in 2007 and has since earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in conservation biology from the University of Alberta. This is her first year as a masters student. Visit http://coyotes-wolves-cougars.blogspot.com

While a new study funded by The National Science Foundation et al has shown that when domestic cats reside in areas where Pumas, Bobcats and Lynx are present, wildlife diseases like Bartonellosis,Toxoplasmosis and Feline immunodefiency virus can be spread from housecat to humans........"As human development encroaches on natural habitat, wildlife species that live there may be susceptible to diseases we or our domestic animals carry and spread," said Kevin Crooks, a biologist at Colorado State and co-leader of the project.........."At the same time, wildlife can harbor diseases that humans and our pets can in turn get. Diseases may be increasingly transmitted as former natural areas are developed." The way I see it, it is incumbent upon us to keep our cats on a leash and not let out to run wild in the woods........Not only are our cats killing untold number of birds and small critters, but by us letting them into wild spaces, we are condeming our native wild cats to destruction from disease as well as ignorant folks calling for the wild cats to be killed(with the excuse being that Pumas, Bobcats and Lynx are killing our pets) Posted: 03 Feb 2012 11:44 PM PST http://www.nsf.com/ Domestic Cats, and Wild Bobcats and Pumas, Living in Same Area Have Same Diseases May bring them into human homes, bridging "infection gap" between people and wildlife Mountain lion photographed by a motion-activated camera, Uncompahgre Plateau, Colorado. Domestic cats, wild bobcats and pumas that live in the same area share the same diseases. And domestic cats may bring them into human homes, according to results of a study of what happens when big and small cats cross paths. Initial results of the multi-year study are published today in the scientific journal PLoS One by a group of 14 authors.The joint National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases (EEID) Program funded the study. Scientists at Colorado State University and other institutions conducted the research. It provides evidence that domestic cats and wild cats that share the same outdoor areas in urban environments also can share diseases such as Bartonellosis and Toxoplasmosis. Both can be spread from cats to people. "Human-wildlife interactions will continue to increase as human populations expand," said Sam Scheiner, program director for EEID at NSF. "This study demonstrates that such interactions can be indirect and extensive," said Scheiner. "Through our pets we are sharing their diseases, which can affect our health, our pets' health and wildlife health." The study looked at urban areas in California and Colorado. Its results show that diseases can spread via contact with shared habitat. All three diseases the scientists tracked--Toxoplasmosis, Bartonellosis and FIV, or feline immunodefiency virus--were present in each area. The research also demonstrates that diseases can be clustered due to urban development and major freeways that restrict animal movement. "The results are relevant to the big picture of domestic cats and their owners in urban areas frequented by wild cats such as bobcats and pumas," said Sue VandeWoude, a veterinarian at Colorado State and co-leader of the project. "The moral of this story is that diseases can be transmitted between housecats and wildlife in areas they share, so it's important for pet owners to keep that in mind." Lynx housecat The researchers followed wild and domestic cats in several regions of Colorado and California to determine whether the cats had been exposed to certain diseases.The effort includes data from 800 blood samples from felines of all sizes, including 260 bobcats and 200 pumas, which were captured and released, and 275 domestic cats."As human development encroaches on natural habitat, wildlife species that live there may be susceptible to diseases we or our domestic animals carry and spread," said Kevin Crooks, a biologist at Colorado State and co-leader of the project. "At the same time, wildlife can harbor diseases that humans and our pets can in turn get. Diseases may be increasingly transmitted as former natural areas are developed." The project also looked at whether bobcats in southern California were segregated into different populations by major highways. By analyzing genetic and pathogen data, the scientists found that bobcats west or east of Highway 5 near Los Angeles rarely interbred, but that the bobcats did cross into each other's territory often enough to share diseases such as FIV. Bobcat "The evidence suggests that bobcats are moving across major highways, but are not able to easily set up new home territories," said VandeWoude. "They can, however, spread diseases to one another when they cross into each other's territories. This could result in inbreeding of the bobcats trapped by urban development and end up in the spread of diseases." VandeWoude and Crooks say that the results don't necessarily mean that all domestic cats that are allowed to roam outdoors are at a high level of risk. They plan further studies to better assess that risk. It does mean that domestic cats and wild cats who share the same environment--even if they do not come into contact with each other--also can share diseases. The findings show that pumas are more likely to be infected with FIV than bobcats or domestic cats. While FIV cannot be transmitted to people, it is highly contagious among felines.The rate of Toxoplasmosis was high in pumas and bobcats across Colorado and California. Toxoplasmosis is caused by a parasite that, when carried by healthy people, has no effect but that can cause complications for infants and adults with compromised immune systems. Cats only spread Toxoplasmosis in their feces for a few weeks following infection with the parasite. Like humans, cats rarely have symptoms when first infected. Bartonellosis is a bacterial infection also called cat scratch disease. If someone is scratched by a cat with Bartonellosis, the scratch may become infected, but the infection is usually a mild one. Other studies underway include a fine-scale analysis of urban landscape features that affect disease incidence; evaluation of pathogen exposure and transmission in bobcats; and a survey of domestic cat owners about their attitudes toward risks for pets from wildlife. Large-scale projects looking at movement patterns of bobcats and pumas in Colorado, and a motion-activated camera analysis of human and wildlife interactions along urban areas, are also in progress. The take-home message, the researchers say, is that life in the wild may not be so wild after all. In addition to VandeWoude and Crooks, co-authors of the paper are: Sarah Bevins, Scott Carver, Mo Salman and Michael Lappin of Colorado State University; Erin Boydston, Lisa Lyren and Robert Fisher of the Western Ecological Research Center, U.S. Geological Survey; Mat Alldredge and Kenneth Logan of the Colorado Division of Parks and Wildlife; Seth Riley of the National Park Service in Thousands Oaks, Calif.; and T. Winston Vickers and Walter Boyce of the University of California at Davis. Visit http://coyotes-wolves-cougars.blogspot.com

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