Re(2): Great Article in the Westerly Sun IP: 68.172.220.212 Posted on February 2, 2015 at 02:02:02 PM by Chris
Good morning, Weather,
Last week, a cougar was caught in a Black Hills fox trap:
http://ravallirepublic.com/missoula/lifestyles/recreation/article_ffc87009-797c-59dc-a426-27accb41a194.html
Last year, a cougar was caught in a southern Ontario bear trap:
http://www.northumberlandnews.com/news-story/4629154-roaming-cpugard-caught-in-grafton/
In 2012, a cougar was caught in a Missouri bobcat trap:
http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/local/missouri-cougar-list-keeps-getting-longer/article_40e3d0d1-4b31-5dae-930d-8f40a39954eb.html
Here's a cougar being released from a coyote snare:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSguuQ9nwoQ
In addition to cougar confirmations, this hair-snare study in eastern Canada captured the fur of bears, bobcats, coyote, lynx, wolves and a number of smaller critters: http://www.eaglehill.us/NENAonline/articles/NENA-20-3/10-Lapointe.shtml
Jon Way has captured and studied coyotes in suburban Boston and Cape Cod: http://www.easterncoyoteresearch.com
Amy Mayer and Mary Sullivan are using hair-snares to capture evidence of black bears in Rhode Island: http://www.providencejournal.com/news/environment/20141006-wildlife-biologists-searching-for-signs-of-black-bears-in-r.i.-video.ece
Numi Mitchell and others capture and study coyotes in Rhode island: http://theconservationagency.org/coyote/
Michael Evens is studying black bears using hair-snares and camera traps in northwestern Connecticut: http://www.theday.com/article/20120826/NWS01/308269942
New England cougar watchers on this and other websites maintain that the cougar density is higher in coastal and suburban New England than it is in interior New England.
Since cougars are being captured incidentally in fox, bear, bobcat and coyote traps/snares, and on research as well as random wildlife cameras, and since evidence of other mammals are caught in cougar research hair-snares, have you attempted to collaborate with or contacted any of the biologists studying suburban carnivores who might incidentally capture suburban cougar evidence with their traps/hair-snares/wildlife cameras in MA, RI and CT?