FIRST Discover why cougars matter
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https://youtu.be/4fiG5Soa1vM
Cougar mitigates Lyme Disease:
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Cougar sterilize the ecosystems from disease:
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PUBLIC COUGAR PRESENTATIONS
OreCat supports Traditional Ecological Knowledge. Working with Native American students at Chemawa School, OreCat was able to reenact ancient Elder cougar story in Native traditional dance. The above photo shows students drumming and dancing on the Captial steps.
​OreCat's director, Allyson Miller having some fun at a local pub PechaKucha.
(click on the below link)​www.pechakucha.com/presentations/the-greatest-good-for-the-greater-part-of-the-masses-is-to-stop-killing-the-cougar--184
SECOND LETS WORK TOGETHER TO SAVE YOUR COUGAR!
Conserve and protect cougar
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fiG5Soa1vM&t=1120s
Cougar kitten trafficking:
Reference 19:02
What are the risks and what are the benefits of coexisting with cougar?
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Oregon has a tick and politic problem, not a cougar problem
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Protecting The Cat of 86 Names One Citizen Scientist At A Time
It speaks volumes that across cultural differences, humans have proclaimed at least eighty-six names upon one complex species for which we have shared the earth for thousands of years. No other animal known has received as many titles as the cougar. What could eighty-six names say about human relationships with the puma that may matter today? Out of the twenty-five North American names, the Chickasaws called cougar Koe-Ishto, Cat of God.
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Reference: Allyson Jayne Miller for the degree of Master's of Natural Resources presented on June 19, 2020.
Title: The Cougar, The Tick, and Human Wellbeing: The Social, Economic, and Ecological Valuations of Living with Cougars in Oregon
Thesis Link: "The Cougar at this link: https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/concern/graduate_projects/6h441114x?locale=en
RECOMMENDED PATH FORWARD
1) CHANGE THE WORDS WE USE TO PERCEIVE AND MANAGE COUGAR.
2) CHANGE OREGON DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE (ODFW) TO DEPARTMENT OF RESILIENT ECOSYSTEMS (ODRE).
3) ODRE DESIGNS ONE APEX MANAGEMENT PLAN COVERING ALL THREE PREDATORS, WOLF, COUGAR, AND BEAR.
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https://youtu.be/4fiG5Soa1vM
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IT'S UP TO US
Cougar Valuations, changing how we perceive cougar
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https://youtu.be/4fiG5Soa1vM
Policy & Social infrastructures
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Guardian Dog Livestock Protection Program
OreCat has a gifting program that places Great Pyrenees/Maremma Livestock and Guardian Dog puppies with small subsistence farmers or people who want a hiking buddy in the wilderness. Protecting the lives cougar one dog at a time!
Remember: Your farm as part of a larger community, locally, nationally and internationally; we now know we are part of outside the environment. We need to remember that the global market is looking at us. There is very little protection for predators, therefore
we need to reconsider our way of thinking and become more scientific and ethical in our
approach to human wildlife conflict resolution
(click on the below link)
ktvl.com/news/local/selma-farmer-raises-livestock-guardian-dogs
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The overarching objective of this Allyson's research is to identify how the three tiers of human well-being (i.e., economics, ecosystems, and social) are linked to healthy landscapes and a species-rich ecosystem mediated by healthy cougar populations. Does the cougar help mitigate Oregon’s Lyme disease, chronic wasting disease (CWD), or elements of climate change? Are there risk assessments of living with, or without them? What can apex predators do for Oregonians and what could our societies look like if we protected the cougar? The goal of her nonprofit is to raise awareness of possible benefits that co-existing with the cougar may offer, as well as potential problems that might be associated with these relationships. While the cougar is scientifically understood to represent a keystone and umbrella species, there has been little rigorous or interdisciplinary scientific inquiry evaluating the puma’s provisioning influences for human well-being. Her research suggests several moral and ethical missing links, social benefits, and economic valuation connections between Oregon’s cougar and human well-being.
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