Oregon Cougar Action Team
P.O. Box 828, Aumsville, OR 97352. OreCat@yahoo.com, EIN: 26-2492196
The Cougar, The Tick, And Human Wellbeing; The Social, Economic, and Ecological Valuations Of Living with Cougars in Oregon. Peer reviewed Capstone Thesis.
https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/concern/graduate_projects/6h441114x?locale=en
ORECAT SUPPORTS AND IS WORKING HARD TO IMPLEMENT AN "AGRICULTURE AND WILDLIFE PROTECTION PROGRAM", A COUNTY BY COUNTY HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL NON-LETHAL GRANTS PROGRAM FIRST INTRODUCED IN BENTON COUNTY, OREGON. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS REMARKABLE PROGRAM, PLEASE REFERENCE THE BELOW LINK. TO LEARN MORE ABOUT HOW YOU CAN START THIS PROGRAM IN YOUR COUNTY, EMAIL ORECAT@YAHOO.COM.
Agriculture & Wildlife Protection Program | Benton County Oregon
A Message from Allyson Jayne Miller Director Oregon Cougar Action Team:
There is nothing in our Universe that indicates that humans are the only species for which to be blessed with the ability to reason, think, and feel; indeed, there is growing evidence that is quite the contrary. Everyone, it seems, claims to love a particular animal or ecosystem. But I say, rather than fall in love, fall into an epiphany that changes your insights or perspectives as to the reality of the simple and often seemingly mystical elements of ecosystems and the animals and plants that sustain them. Because when you fall into an epiphany, you will never view the ecologies and animals as a commonplace occurrence or experience again. You will love them as if your life depended upon it. Allyson Miller, 2019.
Oregon Action Cougar Team is counting on you to be the change Oregon needs to protect Oregon's cougars from being hunted down with the use of hound dogs, and to help Oregonians learn to coexist with their surroundings in the wilderness.
The Secret Life of Mountain Lions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oBV1gcqR3A&feature=player_embedded
About Oregon's Cougar Kittens:
According to page 51 of Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife’s 2017 Cougar Management Plan, it states that Oregon has approximately 3,300 adult cougars and not 6,000 or 7,000. The apparent balance, 4,309, are a hypothetical cougar kitten population count, day one up to two years. Due to the high mortality rate of young wildlife, Fish and Game agencies do not count them in their population model counts. ODFW has singled out the cougar kitten, and unlike their deer and elk counts, has included the kitten in the adult population model count. ODFW does not count kitten mortality in their quota or harvest counts, yet kittens already dead or not yet born, are included in their cougar population model count.
By counting an apparent hypothetical number of kittens, ODFW and the hound hunters have willingly misled the public in a blatant attempt to make it sound like Oregon is full of cougars. When in fact, Oregon has no more adult cougar than any other state. Adding fear and exploiting the cougar kittens for which to pass bills to kill cougar specifically with hounds, is not rational, nor is it honest.
K-2 News investigative reporter discovered that ODFW is not telling you the truth about Oregon's cougar kittens. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=colv5FIZHrw
GO TO OUR COUGAR KITTEN STATS PAGE TO LEARN THE TRUTH ABOUT KITTEN MORTALITY!!
THE GREATEST GOOD FOR THE GREATER PART OF THE MASSES IS TO STOP KILLING COUGAR.
OreCat's director, Allyson Miller having some fun at a local pub perchakucha:
https://www.pechakucha.com/presentations/the-greatest-good-for-the-greater-part-of-the-masses-is-to-stop-killing-the-cougar--184
P.O. Box 828
Aumsville, OR 97325
ph: 971-720-7057
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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 I have ever witnessed.
His endless energy helped Oregon Cougar Action Team promote “Come Fire and the Flood Moon” a 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.
Jayne Miller
Founding Director and Lobbyist
Jayne grew up an Oregon cattle rancher's daughter on her family's 7000 acre cattle and wheat ranch. Now Vegan, she still farms today. Her father taught her Aldo Leapold's principles of caring for the land and to value the role of the apex predator; a practice she implements on her current land stewardship programs today.
Jayne Miller is an accomplished published author, artist and grant writer. Her life reflects her deep love of the land, the wilderness and all God's creatures. She is a seeker of truth and embraces sound science and good statistical data.
On her journey of truth, Jayne has worn many hats in her life and has learned from all her roles. She paid her way through a 4 year degree by serving in the Military. Upon graduating with top honors, she worked for Boise Cascade Timber Industry managing a 10 million dollar store stock inventory on mill site and soon realized she was a tree hugger. After the timber downsizing happened due to bad management and flawed policy making, Jayne was hired as an International Procurement Officer for an Oil Cartel family out of Saudi Arabia.
Years later she came home to find Oregon was not following Tom McCall’s hopes of conservation to the level he had wished for. She started Oregon Cougar Action Team (OreCat) as a means to try and mend the damage to Oregon’s ecosystems. As Jayne sees it, saving Oregon’s apex predator the cougar and now our wolves, equates to saving many more species dependent on the ecosystems Oregon’s cougar and wolves sustain.
When not giving presentations or working as a lobbyist, Jayne is busy growing herbs, nuts, and greens on her permaculture farm. Jayne is Vegan...her cows trim the trees and cut the grass and her chickens do the tractor work.
Jayne's art has sold around the world. She works in porcelain, oil, watercolor, and oil chaulk. Her works have been featured in Bliss Victoria, Sew News Magazine, Small Farmer's Journal, The Oregon Book, and Marion Soil and Water Conservation's Rural Hand Book of which she helped write. Jayne was a 4 year elected official of Marion Soil and Water Conservation District, and represented District 4. She was MSWC first Organic farmer and she suceeded introducing growing native berries as food source, water conservation programs, rain harvest, and pesticide water quality control grants that totaled almost one million in grants gifted to recipiants.
Currently, Jayne is working on her Masters in Applied Ethics and aninal welfare at Oregon State University.
Saving Cougar is saving Oregon.
RECEIVE THIS MUG FOR FREE WITH A $50.00 DONATION! ON THE FRONT OF THE MUG IS PICTURED A MOTHER COUGAR AND HER KITTEN AND STATED ON THE BACK IS "HOW MANY COUGAR DO WE HAVE? HOW MANY DO WE NEED? BEATS ME! LETS FIND OUT FIRST BEFORE WE KILL ANY MORE!"
P.O. Box 828
Aumsville, OR 97325
ph: 971-720-7057
OreCat