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Orphaned-kitten issue to be considered in setting new lion season The state Game, Fish & Parks Commission will propose dates for the 2008 mountain lion season during a meeting in Custer State Park on Thursday and Friday, May 1 and 2, that also will include an update on the lion population in the Black Hills. State biologists wouldn't discuss the recommendations they intend to make to the commission before the meeting. But More...

Biologists hope a day of science will attract kids Field biologists and kids have a lot in common. They both get really excited about the smallest of things, like a snail or bug crawling across a trail, biologist Ray Sauvajot said. And next month, both will have the chance to share their enthusiasm for the outdoors in a 24-hour survey of all things wild in the first public biological inventory of the Santa Monica Mountains. The Nation More...

Report details new wildlife linkage designs The wildlife linkages are essential in maintaining healthy gene pools and protecting wildlife from human encroachment, according to biologists. In a landmark conservation plan to safeguard wildlife corridors, detailed in a recent report from the conservation planning organization South Coast Wildlands, linkage designs for about 60 different species of animals have been identified, and best potential routes have been developed. Wildli More...

Arizona’s Kofa Refuge Cougars Get One-Year Reprieve Government Halts “Lethal Removal” of Refuge Puma after PEER Intervention YUMA, ARIZONA - State and federal officials announced a one-year halt of killing cougars on the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge days after Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) said they would have to go to court unless the practice was ended. The ann More...

		Cougars in chaos How a state hunting policy pushed Washington's big cats to the brink Hot on the heels of a cougar, Catherine Lambert could barely contain her excitement. She had nearly nailed the location of a radio-collared female first captured the previous winter, when her telemetry antenna signaled that the cat had abruptly changed its speed. She mus More...

Preserving local wildlife corridors is in everyone's best interests A wildlife corridor is a continuous thread of habitat that connects species of animals that may have been separated by roads, housing developments or other human activities. These animal corridors are important because they allow different populations of animals to inter-breed, which gives them genetic diversity. It also allows access to more areas of habitat so predators can follow sources of food. More...

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