Posts Tagged: mountain lion

Reduction of Chronic Wasting Disease Prion Seeding Activity following Digestion by Mountain Lions
December 30, 2021
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a transmissible prion disease first observed in the 1960s in North America. This invariably fatal disease affects multiple cervid species in the wild and in captivity. In addition to the several known transmission pathways involving … read more
Posted in CWD & Other Diseases | Tagged chronic wasting disease, mountain lion, Prion, PrP, Puma concolor, RT-QuIC

Forest Carnivore Conservation and Management in the Interior Columbia Basin: Issues and Environmental Correlates
August 29, 2021
Forest carnivores in the Pacific Northwest include 11 medium to large-sized mammalian species of canids, felids, mustelids, and ursids. These carnivores have widely differing status in the region, with some harvested in regulated furbearer seasons, some taken for depredations, and … read more
Posted in Pacific West Wolves | Tagged animal damage, black bear, bobcat, carnivores, conservation, conservation biology, coyote, disturbance, fisher, forest management, fragmentation, geographic information systems, gray wolf, grizzly bear, late successional forest, lynx, management, marten, mountain lion, river otter, roads, wilderness, wolverine