Various Deadlines for Mountain Lion Management Comments- all ASAP attention needed
Interested Persons -- please contact Montana Fish,
Wildlife and Parks by Monday 5 pm Mountain Time 5/20/2013 on their
proposed cougar season. Also please contact Nebraska Game
and Parks, who will be reviewing their season on Friday, 5/24/2013 at
a hearing in Chadron, Nebraska. And there are
4 public meetings folks can attend held by Wyoming Game and
Fish in the next two weeks, with an June 7th written comment deadline
for Wyoming's cougar season.
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Below we give the details on the state agencies/formal commenting and links
to the Cougar Fund and Mountain Lion
Foundation, which have more information on each state. The
Cougar Fund has specific talking points for communications with each
state. Both these cougar-focused organizations have web
resources divided by states. The Cougar Rewilding Foundation and the
Cougar Network have generic references that are not divided by states.
There are also upcoming deadlines for communicating with the SD
Governor-appointed Game Management Review Committee. (The Wildlife
Management Institute has been contracted for an independent review of SD big
game management.) The SD deadline is circa late summer/early
fall, but early comments, sent in June will be most effective. Thus
SD cougars will be addressed in a subsequent
posting. Also check the Cougar Fund’s alerts for South
Dakota.
Please help our cougars and forward this e-mail to interested
persons.
INDEX
Item # 1 >> Info and links to Montana FWP and
their cougar hunting season info
Item # 2 >> Info and Links to Nebraska GP and
their cougar hunting season info.
Item # 3 >> Info and links to Wyoming F&G
and their cougar hunting season info.
Item # 4 >> Link to Cougar Funds "take action"
web site for specific states
Item # 5 >> Link to Mountain Lion Foundation web
site for info on specific states cougar programs
Item # 6 >>Links to Cougar Rewilding and Cougar Network.
Please remember that cougar advocates have many
viewpoints/opinions. The various organizations for which, we provide courtesy links, speak for
themselves and not for all cougar advocates. Prairie Hills Audubon Society will eventually
write our own comment letters that reflect our viewpoint. We
can send our past newsletters with articles on cougar topic and/or our
comment letters on request.
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Item # 1 >> Info and links to Montana FWP and
their cougar hunting season info
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MONTANA COUGARS
COMMENT PERIOD DEADLINES AND FINAL ADOPTION MEETINGS
The public comment period on this proposal will extend through 5
p.m., Monday, May 20, 2013. Final adoption on this item will be made at
the June 6, 2013 FWP Commission meeting.
TO MAKE A COMMENT:
For further clarification, you may call the Wildlife Bureau
office at 406-444-2612. To submit comments electronically, a letter with the
imbedded links below can be found under “Opportunity for Public Comment”
on the Hunting home page at the fwp.mt.gov website.
Comments on paper can be sent to: FWP – Wildlife Bureau, Attn: Public Comment,
POB 200701, Helena, MT 59620-0701.
Imbedded Links to Submit Public Comment - 2013
Mountain Lion Quotas – Proposed
The deadline for public comment on this item is 5:00 PM Monday,
May 20, 2013.
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Item # 2 >> Info and Links to Nebraska Game
& Parks and their proposed cougar hunting season.
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NEBRASKA COUGARS
There is an informational meeting on the 23rd.
For more info:
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Agency
Hearing Contact Email: The following e-mail address is altered – it has spaces
added before and after the @ sign to protect e-mail address from web crawlers patrick.cole @ nebraska.gov
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Agency
Hearing Contact Phone: (402)
471-5523
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(402)
471-5523
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Public commenting may be done at the hearing in person, or it
may be done in writing. We have never heard the deadline for written comments,
but imagine all staff will be in Chadron on the 23rd at the public meeting and
will have collected snail mail before travel and may or may not be
reading/printing e-mails on 23rd, while in the public meeting or at night in
hotels.
You can also provide written comments by sending them to:
Director Douglas
Nebraska Game and Parks Commission
2200 N. 33rd St.
Lincoln, NE 68503
(402) 471-5539
The following e-mail address
is altered – it has spaces added before
and after the @ sign to protect e-mail address from web crawlers.
jim.douglas @ nebraska.gov
Or link to Cougar Fund “take action” web site for e-mails of
specific Nebraska officials/agencies.
The largest part of the proposed mountain lion regulations
are here:
To discover how to provide comments on any rule making
in Nebraska, you may visit the SOS website for instructions/info
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Item # 3 >> Info and Links to Wyoming Game and
Fish and their proposed cougar hunting season info.
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WYOMING COUGARS:
Public meetings on cougars still to be conducted:
May 21, 2013 7:00 p.m. Green River- Green
River Regional Office
May 22, 2013* 7:00
p.m. Sheridan- Sheridan College, Whitney Building,
CTel Room
May 29, 2013 7:00 p.m. Sundance- Crook County Courthouse
May 30, 2013 7:00 p.m. Casper- Casper Regional
Office
Comment Deadline:
June 7 5:00PM
Commission Hearing:
July 9-10 - Saratoga
Emails to Wyoming Game and Fish Director and
Commissioners:
Sheridan Todd
Executive Assistant/Office of the Director
(307)777-4632
The following e-mail address
is altered – it has spaces added before
and after the @ sign to protect e-mail address from web crawlers. sheridan.todd @ wyo.gov
The subject line should read,
"For Director and Commissioners: Comments on Draft
Cougar Hunt Regulations."
WGFD Director Scott Talbott
(307)777-4600
5400 Bishop Blvd
Cheyenne, WY 82006
For a copy of draft regulations visit.
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Item # 4 >> Link to Cougar Fund’s "take action"
web site for specific states
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COUGAR FUND's STATE ALERT PAGE
Please visit Cougar Fund's web page at
"Take Action"
When you use the CF Take Action web page,
there are several states to click on. After selecting
the state there are 4 menu "tags" to click
on: Overview, Facts, Speak Out, Resources. You need to
visit all 4 tags for each state to get the story for each
state.
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Item # 5 >>>> Link to Mountain Lion Foundation
web site for info on specific states cougar programs
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MOUNTAIN
LION FOUNDATION’S STATE WEB PAGE
Visit this web page and click on the flag for the state you wish
to learn about. As compared to CF, the MLF provides more long term and in depth
background and reference information on each state. CF provides
immediate and up-to-date action alerts, talking points & up dates
If you combine both CF & MLF web link sites for any state in
question, you will learn a lot. Once again the web sites of these
organizations represent the opinions of each organization, and not necessarily
those of all cougar advocates.
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Item # 6 >>> Links to the Cougar Rewilding Foundation
and Cougar Network, which provide generic info on cougars and less easily found
& somewhat outdated information on individual states.
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OTHER RESOURCES FOR Mt. LIONS
IN EACH STATE
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The
Cougar Networks confirmation Maps - http://www.cougarnet.org/cougarconfim.html -
show individual confirmations for the states we are interested in between 1990
and early 2013, but to find what the dots pertain to, you must click on each
one. These confirmations are not complete, at least in SD
-- there are many more confirmations outside the Black Hills that CN does
not show). Their Breaking News section - http://www.cougarnet.org/cougarconfim.html -
carries news items pertaining to confirmations outside the range of recognized
breeding populations in the United States.
