Kansas Crimson

https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... extinction

we’ll miss it when it’s gone, and our children will curse us for allowing it to be so

NatGeo has a new article on this that’s pay-walled…fortunately, the only good snake is a dead snake

https://epi.ufl.edu/2024/03/01/invasive ... -reptiles/

I didn't know that's what a lynx sounds like.

Since 2012 SVC has partnered with the USFS and many others to monitor Canada lynx and wolverine populations throughout the Southwestern Crown of the Continent. From January through March, SVC staff and technicians snowmobile to remote locations, setting up bait stations, collecting genetic samples, and following wildlife tracks in the snow - all to better understand the population dynamics and landscape use of these threatened species.

Our work has provided valuable insight into population size and distribution of wolverines and lynx, as well as how Canada lynx utilize post-burn landscapes. Just this past winter, SVC staff spent 960 hours out in the field, covering 736 miles of terrain, while backtracking 30 lynx and maintaining 11 bait stations.

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I thought the whole "approaching bull moose during the rut" vid was gonna in with a Darwin Award

that’s maybe a half mile from us, if that

there was apparently another sighting yesterday just 4 streets south of us

weirdest part is that we’ve had a super mild winter thus far. so it’s not like it’d be pressed for resources up in the canyons

Looks like a bobcat, or maybe a coyote.

Yours truly,

The Kansas and Missouri Wildlife Departments