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STOP MEASURE 19 FROM OVER TURNING MEASURE 18, THE VOTERS WILL PROTECTING COUGAR FROM BEING KILLED WITH DOGS!
    
They say it is all about saving children from being harmed by cougar. Yet in over 100 years no one have been harmed by a cougar in-spite of a very flawed cougar management plan, out of control poachers, and unethical hunters that kill more cougars than are legally killed;  making it more unsafe for livestock and humans.  Oregon Department Of Fish and Wildlife Dr. Jackson reports that killing more cougar creates more cougar conflicts, killing LESS cougar reduces cougar conflicts.  M19 is not about saving children, its about making money for poachers and houndsmen.  M19 will only make poaching and unsafe hunting easier to do.  M19 will support Black Markets such as California's Black Market of wildlife parts that is second to their illegal drug traffic BOTH of which traffic children.  M19 will not increase income to rural Oregon communities, will not make it safer for our children or livestock.    We already have a hound-hunting Bill for cougars.   Decapitating cougar cubs, ripping their legs from their sockets while their mother is treed and shot in all four paws before she falls to the ground and the dogs rip her apart too;  IS NOT A SPORT.  IT IS AN ILLNESS.   Is this the kind of reputation we want for Oregon??

Since M18 was voted in, right around State Legislature time there are unusual sitings or conflict with cougar that are out of character for them.  Many of these types of conflicts with cougars could be due to the fact that cougar cubs are some of the few wildlife that can be taken from the wild and immediately domesticated. Please view the YouTube links below confirming this.

It could be that these out of character cougar issues happening around State Legislature time, and especially the young;   are caught in the wild and held in captivity and then released around humans with the intent of creating cougar hysteria and getting this into the news to help support killing them with bills at the legislature.  The pattern over the years is so consistent that it could be so.

Folks want cougars killed because it lines their pocket-books and they don't give a rip about your kids. Yes, if a human predator can fly a plane into the Trade Towers, sexually molest children at a Catholic school or in a University shower - they will harm your child by placing a domesticated, abuse, confused and starving cougar in harms way just so they can get a Bill passed at State Legislature. ALL cougar issues, ALL child deaths are HUMAN caused. 

BETWEEN NOW AND NEXT LEGISLATIVE SESSION WHEN M19 MAY APPEAR,  DON'T BELIEVE EVERY COUGAR SCARE STORY TO BE A COUGAR THAT WAS RAISED IN THE WILD.   Please view the YouTube links below to learn how easy it is to raise cougars in captivity.
 

   



License To Protect
There is a better plan to manage our wolves and cougar. 

PLEASE SIGN OUR PETITION LINKED BELOW IN SUPPORT OF "License To Protect" OREGON'S RETURNING WOLVES AND DWINDLING COUGAR POPULATION FROM BAD POLICY MAKING, HUNTING PROGRAMS, AND KILLING THEM SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY WERE SEEN!




MORE DETAILS ABOUT LICENSE TO PROTECT CAN BE FOUND AT THE "LICENSE TO PROTECT" BUTTON ABOVE.

At the end of the day when the politics are done, Oregonians are the land ethic and moral responsibilities they choose to be to protect who we are and all that makes our State unique. 

License To Protect would help revitalize rural Oregon economy and protect the Oregon we all love. 

Representative Peter Buckley and Jayne Miller an Oregon cattle ranchers daughter who designed the Bill, were able to submit License To Protect at the State Legislative session last year.   However the Agriculture Committee changed it so much that it was no longer recognizable as the original idea with it’s unique benefits to Oregon.

From town hall meetings, to hunters,  local ranchers, and urban Oregonians;  the original concept of License To Protect has the promise of being very popular with Oregonians across the State.  We are urging this Bill be reinstated in it's original format this upcoming Legislative session in February 2012. 

License To Protect would create a new employer for Oregon Department Of Fish & Wildlife (ODFW) by way of the non-hunting Oregonian (or any Oregonian) buying a nonlethal license for cougar or wolves at the same cost as a killing license;  thus reducing the numbers of wolves and cougar killed.  Each tag sold will remove a cougar or wolf from ODFW's allotted harvest quota, thus reducing the killing of cougar and wolves.  The more LTP's sold, the more wolves and cougar are saved - using all the money for programs that protect them and all parties concerned.  ODFW, The Federal Government Wildlife Agency, Oregon's Agriculture Department and any other agency involved with the killing of cougar and wolves;  would be required to hold to the letter of the law License To Protect and not increase kill quotas to offset the cougar and wolves saved from death that LTP would achieve.  Currently, there are more Bills and programs from the above organizations established without an environmental impact risk factor or unbiased outside peer review done before thrusting them upon Oregon’s ecosystems;  to kill cougar and wolves, thus insuring that there is no true protection for either species at this time.

ALL funding from License To Protect would be strictly monitored.  The funds from this Bill would then be used to provide open wildlife corridors, non-lethal livestock protection programs, wildlife public safety education,  compensate livestock owners any documented loss from cougar or wolves, develop eco-business, and as proven in other State's small rural towns that have wolves;  would encourage a larger year-round income from tourist predator wildlife watching than hunting them ever brought in.  As well as the tourist income this Bill would encourage,  the statistics show there are currently more non-hunting Oregonians (approx 3.8 million) and more wildlife watchers ( 1.7 million) than there are hunters (282,000), so the funds used in LTP’s life giving programs could be substantial. 

The logistics of presenting this option to the public can be as simple as a check box on their tax documents - right next to the wildlife funds that ultimately support hunting.  Cougar and wolves would not only be the keystone species for wildlife, but also a keystone bridging the gap between rural needs and urban understanding of them.

License To Protect will generate money and a good reputation for Oregon, saving our small population of returning wolves and dwindling cougar numbers from sports hunting, poaching and killing them simply because they were seen.

But most of all License To Protect  gives every Oregonian an opportunity to be an overseer to our great natural predators and connects every Oregonian to good land ethic.  The cougar and wolves thank you and so do the ecosystems they sustain for us all.

Thank you for signing our petition requesting License To Protect become a Bill at the February 2012 Oregon State Legislative Session. 


THE ABOVE PICTURE IS OF THE LONE WOLF FAMOUS FOR HIS STRATEGIC TROT ACROSS OREGON!  NOT UNLIKE THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT, THE BRAVE YOUNG WOLF'S LONELY JOURNEY ACROSS THE STATE OF OREGON IS AN INSPIRATION AND IMPORTANT STATEMENT TO US ALL!  WOLVES AND COUGAR BELONG HERE IN OREGON AND THEY HOLD A HIGHER VALUE FOR OREGON'S WILDERNESS AND CITIZENS THAN KILLING THEM. THEY NEED OUR PROTECTION, AND WE NEED THEIRS!   STOP KILLING THEM TODAY!
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How to use OreCat site:

The buttons to take you to different pages on our site are on just under the first cougar picture. 

The "Cougar Science" button talks about Professor William Ripple's studies in the Zion National Park and why we must not sports kill the cougar or wolves with or without hounds as well as Dr. John W Laundre' studies and Aldo Leopold.  Oregon Cougar Action Team supports the preservation of the wolf and our efforts to do so are documented on this page.
 
The "Livestock Safety Plan" has excellent links to many types of pen and building plans, safety data, livestock husbandry information and many more great topics all for FREE.  Our partner WWW.MountainLion.org has an excellent reference library that can answer your concerns about live stock protection, safety, and the biology of our great cat and is also applicable for wolf issues.  Go to their website and click on "Library" for these FREE reports and data or go to our "Livestock Safety Plan" button and see a sampling of data from their library.  Also on our "Livestock Safety Plan" button, Defenders Of Wildlife has a FREE 26 page PDF document on livestock safety and none lethal predator management.  Save our tax payer dollars and print this document so our tax dollars don't have to pay for a trapper or hounds-men to kill a great cat or wolf or compensate a rancher for predator losses.  The material is here and it is free!

The "Donation button" takes you to our donation site and free mug with a $50.00 donation.  All donations are tax deductible.  

The "Cougar Politics button" takes you to the history of cougar politics here in Oregon.
 
The "Cougar Truth button" takes you to various stats on cougars including POACHING.  Lots of material and reference to read on this page so make  cup of tea and settle in for the evening!

HOW MANY COUGAR DO WE HAVE?  HOW MANY DO WE NEED?  BEATS ME, LETS STOP KILLING THEM AND FIND OUT!

Oregon needs an outside unbiased peer review of their cougar population and the policies that impact them.  We need to be assured that our vote for Measure 18 are being honored before this irreplaceable resource, the cougar, disappears! 

Of the two predators, wolves will overbear cougar, kill their young, steal their kills and have forced cougars to change their ranges.  All of these factors have been left out of ODFW’s already poorly written cougar management plan.   




Why Oregon's cougar population model count is wrong:

1. 
ODFW NEWS ARTICLE Statesman Journal September 17, 2010, "Mandatory reporting: Numbers are lagging.  Most hunters are not reporting the results of their big-game and turkey hunting tags despite the fact that it is mandatory."  High percentage of mandatory reporting is not happening = high percentage of cougar kills are not counted and deducted from the amount of cougar we are being told we have.

2.  Poaching is out of hand in Oregon.  More deer, elk and cougar are poached than legally killed according to ODFW and Oregon State Police stats on poaching. 
Poaching costs Oregon taxpayers millions of dollars in lost wildlife, enviromental damage and administrative/law enforcement burdens.  ODFW did not even know the record numbers mule deer were being poached until they found out by accident while doing another study on them.   ODFW does not know how many cougar we have either.  
Study: Poachers kill as many deer in Oregon as hunters
By Associated Press

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has found that poachers are killing as many mule deer as legal hunters.






3.  Incorrect cougar sightings are not being corrected and deducted from ODFW Cougar population model count.


4. 
ODFW has never held to the letter of the law regarding Measure 18.   Apparently after Measure 18 in 1994 the hunters and hound dog kennels were losing money. In response to this ODFW used Measure 18 as a good reason to kill more cougar without dogs than had been killed with dogs before Measure 18!  ODFW accomplished this increased killing program without dogs by changing their internal hunting policy regarding cougar, increased the cougar hunting season to one year, decreased the tag sales and included them in a package tag deal.  In-spite of no one ever being harmed by a cougar in Oregon, ODFW also started a mandatory "pubic safety kill" of 3000 cougar which sunset unsuccessfully in 2010.  Then in 1994 ODFW picked an arbitrary number to start their computer cougar population model. 

The arbitrary number was not supported by any science telling us if this was a sustainable population for Oregon's cougar or even a correct population count to begin with.  It was a political decision, not a decision based on sound science.
   This arbitrary number model system has caught the attention of famous biologists such as Dr. Jane Goodall and prestigious communities such as the Smithsonian who have written about ODFW's flawed cougar management plan as being a very bad plan.  California has only 4000 to 5000 cougar and according to their Fish and Wildlife officials their cougar population is declining in-spite of decades of a no hunting policy and a mandatory open space program for wildlife.  Washington State uses much the same plan that ODFW is using (minus the 3000 mandatory public safety kill program that did not work and sunset in 2010) and their cougar population has plummeted like a rock.  So why did Oregon’s cougar population not decline? Because our cougar population model count was wrong from the beginning.  If ODFW is completely comfortable with their plan, why are they unwilling to have an outside unbiased peer review done? 

It took us approximately 47 years for cougar to rebound from a population of 200 to 3000. It is not possible for a cougar population to triple or even double in a lesser amount of time while under siege of a more aggressive hunting program(s) and less open spaces that their social structure requires. We don't have 6000 cougar.  
Yet ODFW continues to claim their arbitrary computer numbers are correct.  However they are killing more cougar than before Measure 18.  In addition, more cougar are poached than legally killed

On a somewhat dimmer "bright side" ODFW stats show that there are less cougar conflicts with LESS killing.  ODFW noted that cougar conflicts increased when ODFW's internal policies increased the killing of cougar.  So, ODFW's cougar "management" plans that were started in retaliation to Measure 18 have succeeded in making livestock, pets and humans more unsafe and the cougar exploited.   We are paying ODFW valuable tax dollars for wrong information and this is not right.

Washington's killing program, which ODFW has copied, has caused their cougar population to drop like a rock.  They may have only 1600 left.  California has only 4000 to 5000 cougar and according to their Fish and Wildlife department, their cougar numbers are declining. California for decades has had a ban on killing cougar.  They also have set aside millions of dollars to purchase more open spaced dedicated to wildlife.   Yet California according to ODFW has less cougar than Oregon which has for the last 17 years been killing cougar for Sports or poaching in record numbers!  The numbers don't add up!  Oregon does not have 6000 cougar and ODFW cannot with any reliable science support those numbers.  And that is why they cannot hit their target mark, we don't have the cougar population to support that. 

 It appears that ODFW's real plan is to make Oregon's cougar extinct. 

According to Mountain Lion Foundation:  Oregonians need to ask two questions regarding their cougar:


1.  If killing 6,762 cougars over a 44-year time (1918- 1963) period once almost wiped out the cougar population in Oregon, why does ODFW believe  that killing 7,468 cougars over the past  43-years (1963 -2006) of regulated cougar hunt hasn't produced similar results?


2.  Washington has the same cougar hunting restrictions, as well as analogous cougar hunting policies, without the additional 3000 "Public Safety" administrative removal plan which did not work and sunset in 2010. Washington's policies and actions have resulted in a significant reduction in their cougar population.  Why does ODFW believe that similar results are not taking place in Oregon?


FACTS

*ODFW Cougar Ecology by Dr. Jackson: Collard cat studies show the impact that humans have on cougar mortality. (Only the legal percent of sold tags are counted and not the other human caused deaths). ODFW Stats show 32% of cougar are poached, 27% are killed legally (Poached cougar exceed licensed kills), 27% are killed from conflict, for a total of 86% of cougars killed by humans. Cougars killed by natural causes:  37% from other cougars, 31% from disease, 20% from parasites, and 11% from injury. 

*ODFW Stats show cougar weights are down from 150# to 133# for males, and 120# down to a shocking 82# pounds for females. Deer are much smaller now too. THESE ARE STRONG INDICATORS OF AN OUT OF BALANCE, UNHEALTHY, AND DAMAGED ECOSYSTEM. BEFORE WE INSTALL YET ANOTHER SPORTS HUNTING BILL, IT IS MORE PRESSING TO FIND OUT WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE HEALTH OF OUR WILDLIFE AND ECOSYSTEM FIRST.

We can’t keep killing them to find out whats wrong. We need a better plan.

Not all cougars that show up in your neighborhood are raised in the wild BUT HOWEVER THEY SHOW UP IT IS BECAUSE OF ODFW'S POOR COUGAR MANAGEMENT PLAN.  Some cougar have been exploited by way of domesticating them!  See the below YouTube presentations:

Cougar training....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO7Cg6IJoRY&feature=related

BigCatRescure cougar data very good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feavfdrhBwc

Proof cougars can be domesticated and released into the public.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1tih6dsjCg&feature=related

and oh boy this one too!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5i4hRQogj8&NR=1


OreCat does not endorse pet cougars.

Please visit our other pages and links for more information about how to co-exist fear free with cougar, livestock protection, pet protection and much more!  Other excellent reference material:  Ron Baker's "The American Hunting Myth" may be found at www.Amazon.com, and the DVD  "Lords Of Nature, Living In The Land Of Great Predators" can be found at www.LordsOfNature.org  It is an excellent document covering Professor William Ripple's study of cougars and our ecosystems.  OreCat has a copy to use in our many presentations. 

  

Meet our Board Members.
 

Dr. Laurie Marker

Founder and director of Cheetah Conservation Fund located in Namibia (South West Africa

 

 

 

http://www.cheetah.org/?key=81&showdescription=1&html=people&data=people

 

Words do not describe the courage of Dr. Marker when she sold all she had and went to Namibia to save Africa’s Cheetah.  In her campaign to save the Cheetah, she has saved communities, teaching children and adults how to read, providing guard dogs for farmers and bridging the gap between Nations, beliefs, poverty, race and so much more.  In saving the Cheetah, Dr. Marker is helping save a Nation.  We could not be more blessed to have her as a board member.  Smithsonian March 2008, “Cheetahs, A Plan for Their Survival.”      

                                                                          

We are just now beginning to learn from science and studies  concerning cougars and cheetah, that their DNA are closely linked!    An astonishing discovery!                          

 

 

 

Harry MacCormack

Director of The Institute of Biowisdom located at 
www.sunbowfarm.org

 

Harry MacCormack, author, world speaker, retired from OSU, founding pioneer in Organic farming and was co-founder of Oregon Tilth and served as their 1st Executive director.  In fact, Oregon Tilth’s first offices were on his farm.   Harry’s compassion for people and the environment are some of the deepest felt I have ever seen.

 

 

His endless energy helped Oregon Cougar Action Team promote “Come Fire and the Flood Moona play-dance based on an ancient centuries old Kalapulian Cougar story dance that has only been performed about twice in 100 years.  With Harry’s guidance and staff support from Chemawa Native Indian school, Harry orchestrated a fantastic program focusing on Native children returning to their Elders and roots to learn the language of the Kalapuyan and their 1000's of years old Cougar dance.  Harry secured masks made by the Portland Performing Arts and were on loan to us from the Benton County Museum, and spent endless hours with students rehearsing and learning the dance.  It was a fantastic program that gave students a focus other than gangs and sent a positive message to Oregonians about saving Oregon's cougar.  The students and Harry danced at the Capital and the public, Governor and State Legislature were invited.  They danced for the City of Silverton and did a spectacular dance for the school districts of Linn Benton Counties at the Benton County Museum.  Harry designs the kind of programs that Oregon Cougar Action Team wants to sponsor.

 

 

Chemawa Students dancing on the steps of the State Capital Building in "Come Fire and the Flood Moon " historic cougar dance. 

 

 

 

Jayne Miller

www.GrapeLanePoultryFarm.org

 

 

 

I am the founder of Oregon Cougar Acton Team.  I am also a cattle ranchers daughter, I have served in the military, graduated from WOSC, and spent 17 years as an international purchasing agent in the oil cartel fields of Saudi Arabia and for Boise Cascade Pulp and Paper.  Under the tutelage of Lynn Sadler, I spent 1800 hours with the Mountain Lion Foundation learning all I could about cougars and how to help save them.  I want to thank the Mountain Lion Foundation for all they taught me and wish Lynn well working on saving Florida’s cougar.

 

I give presentations from kindergarten up through college about the nature of cougars, how to prepare to stay safe around them, what to do if you see a cougar, and tips on how to protect your livestock from natural predators.  I talk about the features of cougars, how they cannot see like we do but see more like pixels on a bad computer day.  How they raise their young, what to expect and how you can protect yourself and the cougar should you ever meet one!  I have encountered several cougars in my life and am thrilled to have met them!  I give people information I have learned from science and biologists that alleviate fear and negative reactions towards cougar.   How I came about to want to protect the cougar goes back to my childhood.  I grew up on my parents 7000 acre cattle ranch in Klamath Falls Oregon.  We ran 1000 head of cattle per year.  I had the great good fortune to live, play and work around cougar, bobcat and other large game all around our home.  We had 145 acre lake fed year round by 90 degree warm springs.   Geese and other fantastic birds would feed and raise their young around the lake all year long.  My father never allowed hunting or trapping and as a result of this I witnessed a healthy, natural balance living with Nature as it was suppose to be.  Coyotes would sleep under our front porch and I was taught to never fear them.  The animals become part of our lives with nature and character all their own.  I was blessed.  I witnessed and lived what many today have no knowledge of in a land where I could drink from any spring without fear of contaminants and song birds of various kinds sang me to wake each morning.  Of the thousands of cattle we raised, none were ever lost to any natural predator.  Because we did not hunt, poison or trap, there was enough food to go around, leaving our livestock out of the picture.  We did dedicate 200 acres of the 2000 acres of grain we grew to the deer.  Dad said it was cheaper than hunting or poisons. 

 

Over the years I have seen too many changes on Oregon’s landscape that are dismaying to witness.  To all our children, I am sorry for that.  I have done my best to stop this reckless march towards irreversible destruction and it is my hope that OreCat is one small way to help in a very big way. 

 


Welcome to OreCat.org.  We are Oregonians dedicated to the preservation of Oregon’s cougar and wolves and the ecosystem the they sustain. We are a 501c-3 Not-For-Profit educational foundation working to help people make better decisions about our wolves and cougars, promote open spaces for them, and create better wilderness management plans. OreCat offers educational presentations and tools for free to Oregonians, schools, communities and Churches to help citizens, livestock and agriculture enterprises live fear free with wolves and cougars as our Native Nations have done for thousands of years.
             

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Please join Oregon Cougar Action Team and support our efforts by contributing $10.00 or more towards helping us save Oregon’s cougar so that Oregon does not become number 37 of the 36 States without cougar!  Your contributions are tax deductible and your information will remain private.  All funds are used in our PowerPoint presentations, public safety awareness and our new program designed by members of OreCat:

  License To Protect.

 

 

If you are a teacher, biologist, web designer or believe you have other foundation skills to help build Oregon Cougar Action Team and would like to be a board member, please contact:

 

Jayne Miller, elderoak1@yahoo.com 

 
 
 
 "Come Fire and the Flood Moon" Cougar
Dance Fan

 

 

 

 

Whale Daughter falls in love with cougar in

"Come Fire and the Flood Moon

 

 

 

Chemewa Students dance for the cougars in the State Capital 

 

 

 

 

 

Contrary to legend and gossip, cougars do not stalk from trees and jump down on humans or horses, although, my want-to-be-cougar Stevie pictured below in his favorite walnut tree would like you to believe otherwise!  Contact us for a presentation at your school or community group to learn more about cougars!

 

 

 

 

WHEN POLITICS DON'T MAKE SENSE

 

Here in Oregon we have hunting accidents.  Every year in Oregon there are more hunting deaths and accidents than cougar attacks in the last 100 years.  And once in a blue moon we also have tractor vehicle road kill when farmers compete for road space with urban sprawl.  In the last couple of years we had a young boy tragically killed while driving his fathers farm equipment on a country road near my home.  As a result of that single accident, Brian Clem, a local politician took it upon himself to pass a Bill enforcing stricter driving laws to protect slow moving farm vehicles on the road.  This is a good Bill.  But it is a cumbersome program to support.  There are not enough police in the areas to catch a violator and the only time one will usually be apprehended is after an accident. 

In 2009 Oregon suffered yet another death.  An Uncle took his nephew from Salem Oregon out to teach him how to poach, and shot him in the back in a hunting accident that become one of many such hunting issues that Oregon experiences every year.  If there are more hunting accidents in Oregon than cougar attacks and farm vehicle accidents, why has this issue gone unaddressed by any Representative or Senator  with a Bill to tighten gun laws (at least make them as strict as driving laws), create better ODFW management laws (poaching helps keep the numbers of wildlife down and lessons the task for ODFW?), and better policing of hunting violations (lets stop spending several hundred thousand dollars on killing cougars and use it to stop poaching), of which property owners lodge 1000’s of hunting violation and property damage complaints each hunting season.  

There are many at State Legislature who are hunters who like many hunters and poachers appear to believe our Natural Resources are infinite.  Money will clog good thinking and ODFW's bank account are the animals folks are having a free-for-all killing.   Although Brian has been given numerous science data, DVD’s and more educating him on the importance of making a more humane cougar management plan and overall better wildlife management program that does not exploit species at the cost of other wildlife, little has been done to address this outside of just killing them.  There is big money behind killing cougar.  Sports hunting is the primary reason cougar are extinct in nearly 36 States of the Union and critical in other States.  Prices for such fun kills can be as high as $6,000.00 a hound dog, $12,000.00 a cougar hunt.  After cougars become critical or extinct, volumes of tax dollars cannot correct the issues that shortly follow such a loss.  Please refer to the ecological damages to the button upper left titled "Top Predator" for a full report on these damages.

We need better educated politicians to ensure better management of our Natural Resources, wildlife and more honest and safe gun laws wouldn’t hurt either. How many hunters are too many?  We have less land for the animals and more hunters than ever in the history of Oregon.  Over 500,000 hunters - the size of Washington County's population!  The art of hunting has simply turned into a free-for-all war on wildlife, which is already being stress to the limits by bad policy making.  Oregonians and our wilderness and wildlife deserve better than this.