Cougar Conservation & Science
"The cougar is “a model keystone species on which to design landscape-level conservation strategies…as well as an umbrella species, because conservation strategies benefiting cougars also benefit an array of other life forms living in intact ecosystems.” (Logan and Sweanor 2001).
Legal protection for pumas, a keystone species in North America, has been quite recent. Since 1965, regualations on killing pumas by all of the western Untied States (except for Texas) and provinces of Canada have enabled populations to recover from historical low levels.
Cougar management in the U.S., state by state.
Cougar management must reflect our ethical obligations to each other and to the other species with which we share the planet.
Cougars are one of the extremely few animals that can be legally hunted while they are raising dependent young, unlike deer, elk and antelope.
A science-based approach to understanding the cougar, and cougar management.
From the Pleistocene Age, to the Modern Age, the mountain lion, or cougar, has been a feature of wilderness in the Americas.
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