With Tolerance, Apex Predators Like Cougars Can Return, Restore Ecosystems
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Bruce Wright, New Brunswick wildlife biologist and author, with what is believed to be the last eastern puma. The puma was trapped by Rosarie Morin of St. Zacharie, Quebec in Somerset County, Maine in 1938. Mounted specimen resides in the New Brunswick Museum in St. John, New Brunswick. Credit: Courtesy of Northeastern Wildlife Station
WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–June 16, 2015. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today declared…






