Find papers discussed in completed episodes here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1EytbWQ1NieajqUTuBUjhaEe_AOzTzaJ7?usp=sharing
Current Events:
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Join the Florida Chapters of Backcountry Hunters
and Anglers and American Daughters of Conservation for small game hunt at Upper
Hillsborough WMA on February 16th. More details and RSVPs can be
found at: https://www.backcountryhunters.org/small_game_hunt_with_fl_bha_upper_hillsborough_wma
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Submit your public comment about the potential
Florida Bear Hunt by emailing: BEARCOMMENTS@myFWC.com
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Join Mark and the rest of the Florida Chapter of
Backcountry Hunters and Anglers board at the Tallahassee Pint Night at Proof
Brewing at the Student Union location on February 26th. This pint
night occurs after day 1 of the FWC Commission Meeting hosted in the same
building: LINK COMIN SOON
In this episode, we dive deep into wildlife science on the Colorado’s
Mountain Lion populations. This is a controversial and timely topic as Proposition
127 was NOT PASSED, which attempted to take wildlife managing power away from
Colorado Parks and Wildlife by creating a legislative ban. Anti-hunting
environmentalists have not taken this loss with grace as they continue to
attempt to ban big cat hunting with targeted and misleading propaganda. In
light of this misleading information, it is important to remember that wildlife
management should depend on science, now emotion, so here is a deep dive into
some science! This paper “Effects of hunting on a Puma population in Colorado”
published in Wildlife Monographs by Kenneth Logan and Jonathan Runge in 2020,
was able to implement a 5 year hiatus on hunting in the Uncompahgre Plateau
unit to assess how hunting pressure impacts population dynamics, age structure,
and distribution of Puma concolor (mountain lions).
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