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COUGARS
CORONAVIRUS
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That system allowed
biologist Robert Wielgus to
conduct several studies of
human-cougar confl icts and
cougar behavior in zones
with little-to-no hunting and
zones with a lot of hunt-
ing. At the time, he was
the director of the Large
Carnivore Conservation
Lab at Washington State
University.
“We thought we’d fi nd that
areas with the most hunting
would have the lowest num-
ber of cougars, and lower
numbers of cougar-related
problems,” Wielgus says.
But that was not the
case. In high-hunting areas,
there were more attacks
on livestock and people
than in similar low-hunting
areas. Wielgus found that
when a male adult cougar
was killed, three or four
younger males would enter
the territory and compete
with each other. These ag-
gressive, young males were
much more likely to attack
humans or livestock.
Wielgus also found that
cougar hunting had un-
expected consequences
for game animals, some of
which are endangered.
Male cougars’ territories
overlap with the females. If
a male cougar encounters a
female with cubs that aren’t
his own, he’ll often kill that
female.
He explained that if a
male was killed, and “several
young males move into her
territory, she’ll move to a
place where cougars aren’t.
Usually, that’s higher eleva-
tion,” said Wielgus.
That’s a problem, because
when those cougars move,
they also change their diets.
There are no white-tail deer
at high elevation. Instead,
the females were hunting
endangered (now extinct in
the U.S.) mountain caribou
But other offi cials told Congress that they lack ba-
sic supplies such as respiratory masks and function-
ing testing kits. Only about a dozen state and local
laboratories can run tests outside the CDC in Atlanta
because the kits it sent out nationwide this month
included a faulty component.
While Trump tried to ease concerns over corona-
virus, he fanned public panic over Ebola in 2014,
claiming at the time that the Obama administration
lied about the danger. He repeatedly urged offi cials to
bar U.S. health workers and others who had con-
tracted the virus overseas from returning home for
treatment.
Democrats warned that the administration’s
response is insuffi cient — citing prior administration
cuts to the CDC — and that its request to Congress
for $2.5 billion in special funding doesn’t address the
scope of the problem.
Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., said Trump has
“not done nearly enough” and said California com-
munities are responding to the virus “despite poor
coordination and vague guidance from the federal
government.”
“More than any other state, California has been on
the front lines of the COVID-19 response,” she wrote
in a letter to Trump on Wednesday. “Your adminis-
tration has yet to reimburse state and local entities
for costs incurred as part of the federal response to
COVID-19 — or even provided written assurances of
any plan to do so.”
Republicans suggested that Democrats were too
eager to criticize the administration. No sooner did
the White House release the funding request “than
some politicians were on the air criticizing you for not
asking for enough,” said Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.,
said he expects the funding to land at about $4 bil-
lion. He called a request for $8 billion from Senate
Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., a politi-
cal ploy. Trump said Wednesday that he would take
whatever Congress gives him.
Michael Brown, who lost his job as emergency
management director and saw his reputation sav-
aged during Hurricane Katrina, said the lack of clear
direction compounds pressure — already immense —
for those trying to respond to urgent national threats
and crises.
Brown, now a conservative radio host in Denver,
said his biggest regret after Katrina was reciting the
Bush administration’s upbeat talking points rather
than explaining the logistical obstacles he faced after
the hurricane devastated Louisiana and other Gulf
Coast states, killing an estimated 1,800 people.
“I think the American public would rather hear
that than a bunch of B.S. talking points,” he said.
Brown said CDC offi cials were right to offer unvar-
nished warnings, even if it meant resisting or defying
White House pressure.
Submitted photo
Cougars are relatively common in the Blue Mountains region of Oregon.
There are only a few
studies that really look
into this. And they’re all
regional.”
— Biologist Robert Wielgus
ODFW tracks cougar hunter success
Based on mandatory hunter reporting, hunters in Oregon
killed 350 cougars in the state during 2018, according to
the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. The biggest
tally among the state’s six cougar-hunting zones was 110
cougars killed in the Blue Mountains zone, which includes
Baker, Union and Wallowa counties.
and bighorn sheep.
Another study in Brit-
ish Columbia looked at the
effects of sport hunting on
humans and livestock.
cougar-human interactions.
“There are only a few
They also found that sport
studies that really look into
hunting increased attacks on this,” says Wielgus. “And
they’re all regional. But now,
we have Laundré’s paper —
and each time, the results
are the same.”
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