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I predict 5 will be killed by mt lions. Or wolves2 will be unknown mortality 1 will be hit by a car1 will go back to Canada where it belongs
Copied from the original postOnce an animal was captured, a veterinarian would do a visual examination. Then the animal would be driven over the border into Washington and released at one of the two release sites.I thought it was illegal to release non native wildlife in Washington?
Yup, but Washington is the fringe edge of their range. The fingers that poke down into Washington which hold Lynx doesn't make it a core habitat range.
When I was a kid there were lynx scattered through the Kettle Range, the Selkirks, in the wedge, and in the Okanogan, I remember seeing tracks fairly often when I first started lion hunting, even managed to see two of them through the years, one of them I saw real close when it crossed the road on the summit of the Tacoma Creek Divide. I have not seen a Lynx track in WA for quite a few years now. Trappers got some of them when they could still be trapped, hunting and trapping seasons were closed, but the numbers seemed to continue dropping, they just seemed to disappear. With how overgrown our forests have become I think they have a fair chance of making it now, they are one specie that probably benefits from a lack of forest management.
Quote from: Jingles on March 11, 2022, 12:01:25 PMCopied from the original postOnce an animal was captured, a veterinarian would do a visual examination. Then the animal would be driven over the border into Washington and released at one of the two release sites.I thought it was illegal to release non native wildlife in Washington?But if it's a fish, then nobody wants to move it to a river even five miles away. They have to regenerate naturally. Wolves and lynx and (soon grizz?) get to follow a different philosophy.
Quote from: JimmyHoffa on March 11, 2022, 05:10:38 PMQuote from: Jingles on March 11, 2022, 12:01:25 PMCopied from the original postOnce an animal was captured, a veterinarian would do a visual examination. Then the animal would be driven over the border into Washington and released at one of the two release sites.I thought it was illegal to release non native wildlife in Washington?But if it's a fish, then nobody wants to move it to a river even five miles away. They have to regenerate naturally. Wolves and lynx and (soon grizz?) get to follow a different philosophy.??
This conservation Northwest,these the same group trying to stop spring bear.