The menopause is a natural part of ageing, which typically occurs when a woman is between 45 – 55 years old. There are many symptoms of menopause that women can suffer from such as problems with memory or concentration, anxiety, night sweats, hot flushes and many more.
Under section 6 of the Equality Act 2010, a person has a disability if they have 'a physical or mental impairment and the impairment has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on their ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities.' Although menopausal symptoms can last for longer than four years, the controversy behind menopause being classed as a disability is due to the fact that the symptoms are not permanent and can change overtime. However, in the recent case of Ms M Davies v Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service the Employment tribunal ruled that menopause can be classed as a disability.
In this case, Ms Davies was employed as a Court Officer in 1997 and held an immaculate record throughout her years working for the Scottish Courts. Ms Davies began experiencing the onset of menopause which resulted in symptoms of anxiety, palpitations, memory loss, reduced concentration, heavy bleeding resulting in anaemia and a bout of cystitis. In 2017, Ms Davies was dismissed for gross misconduct.
Ms Davies claimed that she had been unfairly dismissed and was discriminated against on the grounds of disability, due to her menopause. The Employment Tribunal ruled that Ms Davies' case of menopause could be classed as a disability, she had been unfairly dismissed and was to be given her job back by the end of June 2018 and awarded with £19, 000 for injury to feelings and loss of pay.
It is important to note that this case does not confirm that menopause will automatically be classed as a disability, it depends on how it affects the individual woman at that stage in her life. Therefore, this type of condition will be judged by the effect of the individual's symptoms.
Now, what does this mean for employers? Before making a decision with regards to an individual's employment, as an employer, it is important to take all aspects of the individual's current state into account. It is clear in this case that Ms Davies was suffering from severe symptoms of menopause and this should have been taken into account by her employer, before dismissing her for gross misconduct.


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ReactCMS
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Content management system using React and NodeJS

System Setup
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Install support modules
```
sudo npm install -g browserify
sudo npm install -g react-tools
```

Go to site folder and load project (default to main project under data/main)

```
node cmd.js load
```

Start
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Go to application root folder (where this github project is cloned to)

```
./start
```

Visit website at http://localhost:8700

Support
-------

On MacSOX, there may be error due to low number of file descriptors

Run the following command to overcome file size limit
```
ulimit -n 2560
```

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An inside look at the new football stadium in Inglewood
ByAnabel Munoz
Eyewitness News got a tour of the new stadium in Inglewood that will be home to the Rams and the Chargers by 2020.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. (KABC) -- Eyewitness News got a tour of the new stadium in Inglewood that will be home to the Los Angeles Rams and the Los Angeles Chargers by 2020.
The Los Angeles Stadium at Hollywood Park has approximately 3,000 people working on it daily, and the construction is about halfway done. One of the largest cranes in the world is being used during its construction. The crane measures as tall as the length of a football field.
"Every time I come out, it just amazes me how much more has been done and often in a short amount of time," said John Spanos, President of Football Operations for the Chargers. "I was out here just a few months ago, and it's remarkable how noticeable the progress is."
The stadium is set to host the Super Bowl in 2023, as well as the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2028 Olympics.
At capacity, it will be able to fit 100,000 people. Adjacent to the stadium there will be 20 acres of park.
SPORTS INGLEWOOD LOS ANGELES COUNTY NATIONAL FOOTBAL LEAGUE LOS ANGELES RAMS SUPER BOWL FOOTBALL LOS ANGELES CHARGERS OLYMPICS 2028
An exclusive look at the new football stadium in Inglewood
LAPD, LASD prepared for protests in wake of Tyre Nichols footage

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These 90-minute workshops, arranged by the Business Resource Council, will send you back to work energized and up-to-date on situational topics encountered through daily business and personal life.
Focal Point sessions are held the third Wednesday of January, March, May, September, October and November. A light continental breakfast is served.


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September 20, 2019 December 1, 2019 Suzy Approved Book ReviewsLeave a Comment on On Tour 11/8/19- 12/13/19 " Street Of Storytellers" by Doug Wilhelm
On Tour 11/8/19- 12/13/19 " Street Of Storytellers" by Doug Wilhelm
Rootstock Publishing
Street of Storytellers is a multicultural suspense novel for YA and adult readers.
Luke is 15, and he's mad at his dad. He blames his parents' recent divorce on his father's obsession with finishing a book about a lost ancient civilization in a dangerous part of Asia.
But his father badly wants his son to understand — so he brings Luke to Peshawar, an age-old crossroads city in Pakistan's North West Frontier. To punish his dad, Luke refuses to learn anything about the project or the lost civilization. Instead he's drawn into the strange, intriguing Old City, where a frightening new extremism is on the rise.
Luke is dazzled by Danisha, but in the strict Pashtun culture they can't ever be seen together. He's recruited by her brother to assist the jihadis — but he also bonds with Yusuf, an Afghan refugee who knows what could happen. Then there are the musicians Luke befriends, and a mysterious Sufi teacher who opens his eyes.
Street of Storytellers is intensely suspenseful. It's about three families across two cultures … about two world religions, Islam and Buddhism … about music, Western and Eastern … and about how modern extremism affects ordinary families. It's about an ancient true story the world has almost forgotten. And it's about learning to think for yourself — even if that puts your life at risk.
Doug Wilhelm is a full time writer and editor in Weybridge. His 16 previous books include The Revealers, a novel about bullying that has been the focus of reading and discussion projects in well over 1,000 schools, and continues to be part of the curriculum in middle schools across the country.
As a young journalist in the early 1980s, Doug left his newspaper job to spend two years in Pakistan, India and Nepal. He traveled, wrote, taught English and worked on what he originally planned as a nonfiction book about his experiences, which years later grew into Street of Storytellers.
Along with The Revealers, Doug's other books include three more young-adult novels, a biography of Alexander the Great for young readers, and 10 books for the Choose your Own Adventure series.
Doug is also a working musician—he plays conga drums, percussion and harmonica in several Addison County musical groups. https://www.dougwilhelm.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Street-of-Storytellers-by-Doug-Wilhelm-119722589416068/
Blog : https://www.dougwilhelm.com/reading-matters-blog
Book Blurbs:
"Street of Storytellers is a vivid and layered novel of family angst, clashing cultures, navigating friendships, first love, and wisdom versus extremism amid frightening political and religious tensions in 1984 Pakistan — as told by Luke, a 15 year old American who did not want to be there. Wilhelm skillfully weaves history into dramatic fiction that is both a personal story and a perspective on world events today." – Deborah Rodriguez, author of Kabul Beauty School and The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul
"Street of Storytellers is a storytelling delight, following the journey of a teenage American into the teeming bazaars of Pakistan and a world of musicians, refugees, scholars and the religious fanatics who will become the followers of Osama bin Laden. The story is rich in detail and suspense. Young Luke, resentful of his father's research project and unwilling to learn about the culture around him, ends up learning more than he could ever have expected." – David Moats, author of Civil Wars and winner of the Pulitzer Prize
"An absorbing, rich historical tale…An especially strong, moving, and well-described theme is the power of music to overcome barriers of many kinds, while the book also honestly acknowledges limitations and challenges in fighting extremism. Luke is a believable character who makes mistakes but also redeems himself with courage and generosity. An entertaining, thoughtful look at a complicated historical, religious, artistic, and cultural crossroads." —Kirkus Reviews
Bloggers On Tour:
Nov. 8th – David L Morgan https://instagram.com/david_l_morgan
Nov. 13th -Really Into This https://instagram.com/reallyintothis
Nov 14th – Lindas Book Obsession https://www.facebook.com/lindasbookobsession/
Nov. 18th – The Weekend Booker https://instagram.com/theweekendbooker
Nov. 19th – The Mary Reader https://instagram.com/themaryreader
Nov. 21st -Abdulia Coffee Book Addict https://instagram.com/abduliacoffeebookaddict23
Dec. 1st- Reading With Nicole https://instagram.com/reading_with_nicole
Dec. 2nd –Audio Killed The Bookmark – https://instagram.com/beritaudiokilledthebookmark
Dec. 6th – Mary Beth's Bookshelf –https://www.instagram.com/my_book_journey_
Dec. 7th – Sealed With A Book https://instagram.com/sealedwithabook
Dec. 10th – Amy Lynn Lifestyle https://instagram.com/amylynnlifestyle
Dec.12th- Nurse Bookie https://instagram.com/nurse_bookie
Dec. 13th -Jennifer Tar Heel Reader – https://instagram.com/tarheelread
Dec. 13th – -Cover 2 Cover Cafe https://instagram.com/cover2covercafe
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VIDEO: Two dead in fiery crash in St Ann
Loop News Created : 23 June 2019 Jamaica News
A screen grab from an amateur video of a fatal and fiery crash scene in St Ann on Friday night.
The St Ann police are investigating a fiery crash which claimed the lives of two persons on the Laughlands main road in the parish on Friday night.
The victims, believed to be a man and a woman, were not identified up to Saturday afternoon.
A third person who was injured in the crash, was hospitalised.
According to reports, about 9:15 p.m., the police and firefighters were alerted to a car on fire on the main Laughland main road.
On their arrival, two bodies were seen lying on the roadway.
An amateur video of the crash scene was obtained by Loop News, and is shown below.
In addition, a Subaru Legacy motorcar and a motorcycle were observed to be on fire.
The two individuals were later pronounced dead at the scene of the crash.
It is understood that they were travelling on a motorcycle.
Up to the time of publication, investigators had not determined how the crash occurred.
The police are conducting a probe into the incident.
St Ann
Jamaica Fire Brigade
Trelawny farmer dies after his bike crashes into a pole
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Hospital overcrowding a direct result of Government policy - Adams
11 February, 2015 - by Gerry Adams TD
Sinn Féin Leader Gerry Adams TD has said the current overcrowding crisis in hospitals is a direct result of Government policy.
The number of patients awaiting admission is again at near record levels and Mr Adams today raised the issue with Taoiseach Enda Kenny in the Dáil.
"Some 472 patients were on trolleys in Emergency Departments or wards this morning. For the third day in a row, Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, has the highest number for those on trollies.
"The Irish Hospital Consultants Association says the Government has not provided adequate resources.
"So, a citizen presents at a hospital. They are ill. A clinical decision is taken to admit them. But Government policy prevents this citizen from receiving proper medical attention. Instead they are left for several hours or days on a chair or a trolley."
Speaking earlier in the Dáil Mr Adams asked the Taoiseach to visit Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital and top see for himself the challenges being faced by committed health workers and at all the indignities being heaped upon patients.
"The Taoiseach should take the time to visit a ward from which patients have been clinically discharged but cannot be sent home because Government policy denies them the services they require.
"The fact is, the Government has decided that this is the price that our people must pay for their austerity policies. Meanwhile, last year this Government paid € 7.5 billion in debt interest, including private banking debt.
The overcrowding crisis in our hospitals cannot be tackled while the Government pursues these brutal austerity policies.
"Last month I handed the Taoiseach correspondence I received from HIQA which pointed out that the 2012 Tallaght Report recommendations had not been implemented. They said if these recommendations had been implemented, current risks within hospital emergency departments would be significantly reduced.
"HIQA also told the Department of Health and the HSE this. It is the explicit responsibility of the Department of Health and the Minister for Health to take prompt action to implement HIQA recommendations.
"I asked the Taoiseach on 14th January why the HSE, the Department of Health and the Minister had failed to implement HIQA recommendations.
"He refused to answer my question and has not corresponded with me in relation to the issues raised in the HIQA letter, as he promised.
"Again today the Taoiseach failed to explain why the HSE, the Department of Health and the Minister have still failed to implement HIQA's various recommendations on patient safety in our hospitals."


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Fermentation of pullulan using an oscillatory baffled fermenter
H. K. Gaidhani, B. McNeil, X. Ni
The oscillatory baffled reactor offers enhanced and uniform mixing at very low shear rates compared to conventional mixing devices. This is advantageous for biochemical and biomedical applications where shear sensitive cultures are involved. The work in this paper explores the way in which Aureobasidium pullulans, which produces the versatile biopolymer pullulan, behaves in the low and uniform shear environment of an oscillatory baffled fermenter (OBF), and compares its growth rate and pattern to those in traditional fermenters. A series of pullulan fermentation experiments were performed in the OBF with a particular emphasis placed on the influence of aeration on pullulan and biomass production. The results show that at the optimal volumetric airflow rate of 1 vvm (volume of air per volume of liquid per min) the performance of the OBF is significantly better than the traditional stirred tank fermenter. © 2005 Institution of Chemical Engineers.
Chemical Engineering Research and Design
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Accessibility for Publishers: Practical Tips That Demonstrate it's Well Within Your Reach
a free report from Riverwinds Consulting and Cenveo Publisher Services
Accessibility is an approach to publishing and design that makes content available to all, including those with disabilities who use assistive technologies on the computer. The aim of accessible publishing is to make reading easier for users who have difficulties or disabilities including the blind, partially sighted, and people with learning disabilities. Making content accessible enables readers to experience content in the most efficient format and allows them to absorb the information in a better way. The term "accessibility" is used to address issues of content structure, format, and presentation.
The question of "why make the effort to have content accessible to readers with disabilities" still lingers. Of course, accessibility comes with a cost. However, publishing indeed benefits from embracing this essential initiative. When accessibility is well executed, it can expand readership and provide a higher-quality user experience for everyone.
Let's look at an example comparing accessible alt text with alt text captured from a figure legend. Visual items such as images that are important to the content should include alternate-text descriptions (alt text), which allows users to understand visual information. Alt text descriptions should capture information that is not included in the caption or surrounding text, and convey meaningful information to the user from the visual item. Descriptive alt text is critical to understand the full meaning of an image for the visually impaired reader. The following image illustrates an example of accessible alt text that provides a more useful description for a visually impaired reader compared with alt text that simply repeats a figure legend.
In our latest report "Accessibility for Publishers: Practical Tips That Demonstrate it's Well Within Your Reach," we provide business cases that can be brought to leadership and stakeholders in a publishing organization. Download this free report and understand
how you can build the business case for accessibility in your publishing organization
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the key principles of accessibility
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Accessibility for Education Publishers
K-12 and Higher Ed publishers provide complex content that is deeply intertwined with Learning Management Systems and other digital deliverables. That makes accessibility harder—and potentially more rewarding.
In our recent blog, we tackled the issues of accessibility—for visually and cognitively impaired readers—in the realm of scholarly journal publishing. The solutions are (fairly) straightforward for that industry, because you're dealing mostly with documents, and lots of text. Other types of publishers deal with a broader range of issues and output channels, so for them accessibility is more complex. Near the top of this difficulty scale are education publishers.
Even before the rise of digital media, education textbooks—notably in the K-12 market—posed significant accessibility challenges. Complex, rich layouts, laden with color, illustrations, and sidebars, made textbooks a rich, visual experience. Such books can be a treat for sighted students, for whom publishers have invested much thought and design research. For those less fortunate, however, a rich visual layout is an impediment.
Going Beyond Print
For printed textbooks, traditional accessibility fixes like large print and Braille are usually not cost-effective. Recorded audio has been a stopgap solution, but still a costly one, unlikely to handle the ever-increasing volume of educational material. Fortunately, the advent of digital media has far greater potential for making textbooks accessible.
When textbooks are produced as HTML or EPUB (but not PDF), the potential for greater accessibility is obvious. Type size can be adjusted at will. Text-to-speech can provide basic audio content with relative ease. Illustrations can be described with alt text—although care must be taken to insure its quality. Even reading order and other "roadmap" approaches to complex visual layouts can make digital textbooks more accessible than a printed version could ever be.
The real key is digital media's inherent ability to separate presentation and content. Well-structured data and a rich set of metadata can be presented in multiple ways, including forms designed for the visually and cognitively impaired. Government mandates, including the NIMAS specifications, have accelerated this trend. Publishers themselves have developed platforms and service partnerships to make the structuring of data and metadata more cost-effective—even when the government mandate is outdated or insufficient. (The reasons for doing this will be the subject of a future blog.)
The LMS Factor
What makes accessibility for educational publishers far more difficult is not textbooks, however. Particularly in higher education but increasingly in K-12, textbooks are only part of a much larger content environment: the Learning Management System or LMS. Driven by the institutional need to track student progress, and provide many other learning benefits and related technologies, the LMS is typically a complex collection of text content, media, secure web portals, and databases. Although textbooks still form a large portion of LMS content, studies from the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) indicate that the field is undergoing a radical shift.
This has massive implications for accessibility. Not only must publishers provide reading assistance for text and descriptions for images, they also must deal with the interactive elements of a typical website. This includes color contrast, keyboard access, moving content control, and alternatives—probably alt text—for online video and other visually interactive elements. A sighted person might have no difficulty with an online quiz, but the process will be very different for the visually impaired.
Fortunately—at least for now—the online elements of most LMSs are deployed on standard desktop or laptop computers, not mobile devices. The BISG study indicates that this is because more students have access to a PC, but not all have a tablet or e-reader. This makes the publisher's task "simpler"—with fewer variations in operating systems and interfaces—but that will change as mobile device use increases. LMS features on smartphones are the start of new accessibility headaches for publishers.
Workflow—Again
As I pointed out in the previous blog, service providers have a major role in making accessibility affordable. This is especially true for educational publishers. Automating and standardizing content and metadata are usually out of reach, even for the largest publishers. Even keeping up to date with government and industry mandates, like Section 508 and WCAG 2.0, are best handled by a common service provider.
As with journal publishing, the overall workflow will make accessibility cost-effective in the complex, LMS-focused world of educational publishing. Fortunately, given the size and scope of that industry's audience, it also makes the goal of accessibility more rewarding.
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The Technology & Trends Reshaping K-12 Education Publishing
June 26, 2017 / Mike Groth
Stream our recording of Publishing Executive's June 14th webinar featuring Lisa Carmona, SVP/Chief Product Officer, PreK-12 Portfolio at McGraw-Hill Education and Brian O'Leary, Executive Director at Book Information Study Group (BISG).
Helping students learn remains the core objective of education publishers, but the tools and tactics are evolving quickly. The new expectations of digital native students require publishers to enable learning materials with technology that meets the needs of The Mobile Generation. Data analytics have become nearly as important as content, supporting adaptive learning platforms and helping teachers monitor progress.
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Browsing page 125 of "G" words
very good, excellent; "cool"; "sick"; "wicked".
See more words with the same meaning: good, okay, cool, awesome, fun.
Last edited on Apr 25 2013. Submitted by Shane Lee from Adelaide, SA, Australia on Aug 07 2006.
gun for
to attempt to reach a goal.
He's gunning for president.
See more words with the same meaning: to attempt, try.
Last edited on Aug 09 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 11 2009.
to attempt to defeat.
Citation from ""Bachelor Pad" premieres", Salon, Chris Le, Aug 9 2010 censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.
gunge
a slimy or sticky substance.
I had to go home and change. I got some gunge on my shirt.
See more words with the same meaning: gross substance.
Last edited on May 13 2013. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 09 2009.
gung-ho
Last edited on Sep 02 2009. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 02 2009.
eager, energetic and focused toward a goal
Last edited on Aug 31 2011. Submitted by Carobpetal on Aug 31 2011.
gun it
to accelerate, especially in an automobile.
Gun it while I'm holding on.
The thief is getting away, come on gun it!
See more words with the same meaning: driving and driving maneuvers.
See more words with the same meaning: fast, quick, quickly.
Last edited on May 04 2013. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Oct 03 2009.
Gangsta Unit, G-unit is also the name of a rapper, 50 Cent often uses this term in his songs
Last edited on May 28 2003. Submitted by Lexi L. from Iowa, USA on May 28 2003.
any sticky or greasy substance.
Those bolts have gunk all over them.
Last edited on Oct 01 2001. Submitted by Anonymous on Oct 01 2001.
"going to".
What you gunna do?
See more words with the same meaning: alternative spellings or pronunciations (list of).
Last edited on May 16 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on May 16 2011.
amazing; outstanding; overachieving.
Last edited on Nov 04 2014. Submitted by Chuck S. on Nov 04 2014.
an overachiever student who is competitive, and generally wants attention, usually referred to medical/law students. Compare with keener, and throat.
a flashy performer.
an amazingly awesome person, object, or thing.
An over-achieving "Type A" individual; driven, aggressive, heedless, narcissistic
"I'm changing lanes and talkin' on the phone / Drivin' way too fast / And the interstate's jammed with gunners like me / Afraid of comin' in last..." - M.Powell/K.Urban "Days Go By" (album Be Here, 2004)
Last edited on Jun 07 2018. Submitted by Bill V. from Modesto, CA, USA on Jun 07 2018.
nickname for a Gunnery Sargent in the United States Marine Corps.
See more words with the same meaning: military (related to).
Last edited on Dec 31 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Dec 31 2010.


MISSISSIPPI STATE – The Mississippi State University Extension Service will offer timber tax workshops Feb. 28 in Raymond, March 1 in Coffeeville and March 29 in Oxford.
Landowners, certified accountants, consulting foresters and loggers are invited to participate in the Income Taxes and Family Forest short course. Topics include changes to capital gains tax law, basics of basis, record keeping, timber sales income, recovery of reforestation costs, casualty losses, strategic tax planning, tax forms and information sources.
Registration is $35 for individuals and $50 for couples. It includes handouts, notebooks with reference materials, lunch and refreshments. All classes begin at 8:30 a.m. and conclude at 4 p.m. Professional loggers and foresters may earn continuing education credits.
Registration deadlines are Feb. 20 for Raymond and Coffeeville, and March 26 for Oxford. For more information, contact the Hinds County Extension office at (601) 372-1424, the Yalobusha County Extension office at (662) 675-2730, or the Lafayette County Extension office at (662) 234-4451.


On September 7th the world yet again lost one of its top music artists. Mac Miller the American singer was found dead from an apparent overdose at his personal studio. He was discovered by a friend who immediately called 911 but unfortunately was too late as Miller was announced DOA at the scene. Miller worked with many artists across the entertainment industry and produced highly acclaimed albums throughout his career. He was only 26 years old when he died!
Mac Miller stated in the past that due to the stress he was enduring during his 2012 tour, he started to depend on several medications and drugs to be able to control his stressful everyday life.
Miller's ex-girlfriend Ariana Grande, whom he dated for two years shared a touching photo him sitting on the grass, looking up at the camera, posting it as a tribute for him and all of the amazing work he has done during his life. The post had no caption, and it did not need one.
Many other artists paid their respect for the singer through social media.
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SOUND SCIENCE VS. ODFW'S FLAWED SCIENCE. OREGONIANS DESERVE BETTER SCIENCE THAN ODFW'S FLAWED COUGAR MANAGEMENT PLAN!
Oregon Department Of Fish and Wildlife are famous for their flawed cougar management plan. No professional peer review journal will print their plan. However, it has been referenced in Dr. Jane Goodall's book "The Ten Trusts", as a very bad plan and ODFW's cougar management plan is also referenced in September 2006 Smithsonian as a very bad plan.
Below are documents from other good sources of apex wildlife biologists, Dr. John W. Laundré, Dr. Robert L. Beschta, and Dr. William Ripple. Dr. Beschta and Dr. Ripple are both from Oregon State University.
Another great resource that Dr. William Ripple and Dr. Robert Beschta contributed to is the DVD,
"Lords Of Nature, Life In A Land Of Great Predators."
This DVD covers wolves and very little on cougar, however the science applies to both species.
www.lordsofnature.org, produced by Green Fire Productions with excellent wildlife footage from renowned wildlife cinematographer, Bob Landis. It is a stunning documentary challenging the very survival of species, and literally our own survival as humans if the cougar and other top predators continue to be hunted to genetic or complete extinction. It is a life out of balance and cause to think again the role these great animals play even in the lives of those living in cities.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/cougar.html
A plummeting cougar population alters the ecosystem at Zion National Park
By Eric Jaffe
Smithsonian.com, December 01, 2006
It All Falls Down Growing crowds at Utah's Zion National Park have led to the displacement of cougars, the area's top predator, resulting in a devastating series of changes to the region's biodiversity, environmental scientists report.
Compared with a nearby habitat in which cougars still thrive, Zion has fewer cottonwood trees, butterflies, amphibians and wetland plants, and much more deer, according to a paper that appears in the December Biological Conservation.
"The effects have been quite strong and rippled through this ecosystem," says Robert L. Beschta of Oregon State University, who coauthored the study.
Zion's dwindling cougar population traces its roots to the late 1920s, when park management made efforts to increase visitation. By 1934, tourism had risen considerably, attracting some 70,000 visitors a year—about eight times what it had been only a decade earlier. Today the park receives about three million annual visitors.
To measure the impact of the shrinking cougar population, Beschta and William J. Ripple, also of Oregon State, collected census data on Zion's deer populations dating back to the 1930s. They also studied tree rings to estimate the age and abundance of cottonwoods, a favorite food of young deer, and surveyed nearby river banks to gauge the number of butterflies, frogs, lizards and certain plants.
The researchers compared their figures with similar populations from an area next to Zion called North Creek, which has a stable cougar population. They found more deer, fewer young cottonwood trees and less riverbank life in Zion—a difference they attribute to the absence of cougars in the park.
"These major predators are a key component of maintaining biodiversity," Beschta says. "Most people look [around Zion] today and think it's natural, but it's not."
The evidence from Zion suggests a system of trophic cascading, in which a reduced population of top predators has a trickle-down affect on the plants and animals below them in the food chain.
In Zion's case, tourists caused the shy cougar, also called the mountain lion, to flee the area. Deer, which are the cougar's main prey, increased in abundance, leading to a spike in the consumption of young cottonwood trees. These changes contributed to the erosion of riverbanks and a decline in wetland species.
Though trophic cascades have been well-documented in marine life, environmental scientists have debated their presence on land, says biologist Robert T. Paine of the University of Washington, who was not part of the study. Some cascade doubters believe that competition for food regulates deer populations in the absence of a top predator.
"This is a terrific contribution to a growing body of evidence that [cascades] occur in major terrestrial systems," says Paine, who coined the term "trophic cascade" in 1980. Recent studies of shrinking numbers of wolves in Yellowstone National Park have shown similar effects on plant-life.
Restoring at least part of the cougar population could, over time, rebalance Zion's ecosystem. One way to boost the number of predators might be to limit vehicle access to the park, speculates Ripple. When the park implemented a bus system that reduced car traffic in 2000, he says, cougar sightings increased.
Photo by Mark Elbroch for Felidae Conservation Fund
Who owns the wildlife and who should have say in how they are managed or mismanaged?
John W. Laundré
More and more we as a society are facing problems with how wildlife of all types are managed in the United States. We see increasing conflicts and polarization between hunting and anti-hunting groups. On the one side, invoking the pioneer tradition of our ancestors, hunting groups contend that the right to hunt is undeniable and is essential to the sound management of our wildlife resources. On the other hand, anti-hunting groups contend that the need to kill wildlife animals is no longer justified and hunting represents a next to barbaric act against living, feeling animals. On one side, hunters contend that because they pay the bills for the management of wildlife resources through their licenses and a federal excise tax on their hunting equipment, they are the only ones who should have a say in how wildlife manage. On the other side, anti-hunters argue that moral objections to the slaying of innocent animals overrides any priority as to who has a say in these matters. And the arguments go on and on. Both sides have their army of lawyers and donating members to support the lawyers. Each spends millions of dollars for their causes and sometimes hunters win and other times anti-hunters win battles but the war goes on, seemingly without end. Should it be that way? Should we manage or mismanage our wildlife resources though the press, through the courts? Who should have the say over wildlife management and what should that say be?
Given that hunters only comprise 5% of Americans of hunting age and approximately 16% of Americans disapprove of hunting, anti-hunters outnumber hunters by three to one. In the land of majority rule, should not the majority hold sway over the minority? But 16% is far from a majority of the American people. What about the other 79% of America? Should they also have a say? And if they do, what would it be? Of that 79%, 74% approve of hunting but do not hunt. Thus, the majority would seem to fall squarely on the side of hunters. But do non-hunters (the 79% who don't hunt but are not anti-hunting) approve of how hunting is used in wildlife management and if they do or do not, is their voice heard? Are they allowed to express an opinion? Who then has the say over how wildlife are managed in America, the hunters, the anti-hunters, or the rest of the American people? Again, in all this, majority or not, hunters fall back on their base preposition, they pay for wildlife and so they should have the say, the only say. In doing so, they are denying this right to even the 73% of Americans who favor hunting and 95% of the American people are left out of these decisions. One has to ask how such a system differs from the European one our Founding Fathers tried to avoid: wildlife being owned and managed by a small fraction of landowners verses a small fraction of the population who feel they own the "right" to wildlife and how they are managed. In both cases, the majority of the public is left out of the decision process.
Central to the answers to all these questions are two more fundamental questions of first, who owns the wildlife in America and second who is paying for their management/conservation? If we can answer these questions, then we at least define the "rights" of the different sides in the overall argument.
So, first, who owns the wildlife in America? As mentioned above, our founding fathers abhorred the European system where large landowners also owned the wildlife on those lands. To avoid these problems in the new more egalitarian society they were forming, the formers of our government declared that each state claimed ownership of wildlife on behalf of its people. This state ownership was reinforced by the Greer v Connecticut Supreme Court decision that forbid interstate transport of wildlife killed within a state and "to confine the use of such game to those who own it, the people of the state". So clearly, from the beginning to today, we the people, ALL of us own the wildlife within our respective states. And not only do we own the wildlife, imbedded in that ownership is the right to regulate it by all of us. Further, IF that wildlife is migratory or lives on Federal lands in a state, not only do state residents have the right to regulate it but so does the rest of the nation. As stated in the Constitution, "Congress (all of us) shall have the power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States" (Article IV). This puts most wildlife in the National public trust and this right has been repeatedly upheld by the Supreme Court. So clearly stated, all wildlife belongs to all the people and all the people should have a say in how it is managed.
What about the argument that those who pay should have the most, if not all, the say in how wildlife is managed? This brings us to the more fundamental question of who actually does pay for wildlife management in the U.S.? Is it just the hunters? And what wildlife are they paying to manage? There is no doubt that hunters pay a large amount of money to manage wildlife. For many states, game agencies are strictly funded by hunting license fees, to the tune of millions of dollars. Figures range around 600-700 million dollars nationwide. In addition to the hunting license and fees, the Pittman-Robertson act in 1937 dedicated a 10% excise tax on firearms and ammunition to be spent on wildlife restoration. This fund generates around 150 million dollars a year to be distributed to the states. If we add to this figure an estimated 10 BILLON dollars hunters spend when they go hunting, it all comes up to an impressive amount of money they spend on wildlife. So, maybe they should get the say? But wait a minute, let's look at the possible contributions from non-hunters. Regretfully, non-hunters who use and enjoy the outdoors do not pay an excise tax on sporting equipment. They had a chance to do so but did not follow through, but that is another story. Though they do not contribute to wildlife by an excise tax, do they contribute in other ways?
Let me count the ways. First fees. It is true we don't have a wildlife watching fee or license, though that might be a good idea! But non-hunter, when they use the great outdoors do pay fees, camping fees, entrance fees. How much? On the state level, it varies from state to state with a state like California generating 81 million dollars in park fees and more modest 3-10 million dollars in other states. If we use a modest 10 million dollars a year average by state, nationwide, park users pay 500 million dollars a year toward the maintenance of the lands AND by default wildlife on those lands. Add to that, the fact that general tax revenues are also used to make up any difference in expenditures probably in an equal amount. This means general taxpayers, 95% of which do not hunt, pay several hundred million dollars in state taxes to support parks AND the wildlife on these lands. Add to that the average 1 million dollars per state taxpayers check off on their tax forms for nongame species and the total state contributions come up to around 1.5 billion dollars a year.
What about the Federal level? For National Parks, entrance fees generate around 25 million dollars a year. But the National Park budget, is around 3 billion dollars a year, again, paid for in grand part by the 95% non-hunters. We have to add to that the annual budget of the U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife of 2.5 billion dollars. Also, the U.S. BLM (960 million dollars) and the Forest Service (5.1 billion dollars), which maintain large tracts of land for wildlife, add another 6 billion taxpayer dollars to the pot. I am sure I missed some other state and federal agencies whose goal it is to maintain lands and thus the wildlife on them but this should do for now.
Adding up the state revenues and the various Federal sources, we see that recreation users and general taxpayers support wildlife to the tune of around 12 BILLON dollars annually. This compares to the annual 800-900 MILLION dollars generated by sportsmen. But how about that 10 billion dollars generated by sportsmen spending? If we compare the number of people participating in hunting versus other outdoor activities, the latest figures are: 24 million hunters vs 317 million outdoor enthusiasts. Of those, more people go birdwatching (67 million) than hunting. If we assume a similar per person spending as hunters, then these non-hunters are spending over 130 billion dollars! So, I leave it up to you to decide, are hunters the only ones paying for wildlife?
One last important note. Although hunters do pay hundreds of millions of dollars for wildlife management, that money is normally earmarked for specific wildlife, the ones they hunt. Though some money is spent on nongame species, it is done grudgingly or is listed as a side benefit. Most game agencies are not paid to nor really care to manage non-game species. They know where the money comes from and cater to hunters to "put more game in the bag". State game commissions are the same in that they know who they are paid by and as the name indicates only deal with game species. What this does is produce single species management where wildlife in general, the supposed great benefactor of the hunters largess, are ignored or worse yet, like predators, treated as vermin to be hunted without control because they interfere with game species. This also leaves the other 95% of the population, who is really paying the lion's share for wildlife habitat, with little or no say on how the other 99% of the wildlife are managed. This is wrong and needs to be changed. If game agencies cannot, will not, manage the rest of the wildlife resources in a proper manner, then they should only be allowed to manage the ones they are being paid for, game species. This excludes predators which they only "manage" (kill) in response to hunters' cries for more game. All nongame species should be wrenched from game agencies' grasps and given to new standalone state wildlife agencies who cater to the 95% of the people who REALLY pay the bill for wildlife habitat. We need a dramatic change in how wildlife are managed in this country and the separation of "game" management and wildlife management is the first critical step. Let the game agencies with their millions of hunter dollars manage the deer and the ducks but let the new wildlife agencies manage the rest of the wildlife the way they should be managed, based on sound ecological science, not hunter demands. It is time we stop sacrificing the many for the few in the wildlife world and start managing our wildlife as the integral part of the ecosystems they are.
The economics of wolves in the West: Killing the golden goose?
Dr. John W. Laundré
We hear more and more of the bemoaning of western politicians and hunting interests concerning how wolves are "decimating" the elk herds, causing economic hardships for outfitters and guides, and how it then ripples down to economic problems for the rural areas surrounded by the hunting of elk. Based on all this concern, the three main states where wolves have returned, when handed the management of this species, have declared war on wolves with overall plans of not managing them as they would other wildlife but of reducing their numbers to ecologically ineffective levels. And secretively, even eliminating them from parts if not all of their states. Are these concerns of first reducing the elk herd and second, economic hardships that follow, founded in fact or in hysterics? As for the first concern, though the politicians continue to deny it, their own wildlife biologists continue to report healthy numbers of elk in all parts of their states. There is no solid scientific data indicating that wolves are "decimating" elk herds. For this concern, suffice to say, it is really a case of Chicken Little screaming the sky is falling and I will not deal with it here. It is a convenient lie perpetrated by politicians to get votes.
The second concern, reduced revenue because of the wolves, could happen even if wolves are not significantly reducing elk. One way, ironically, is just by state politicians repeating the myths of reduced elk herds, they themselves create a negative atmosphere where people, especially out of state hunters, think twice about coming to their state. So their rhetoric in itself is what is causing some of the economic problems they are trying to blame on the wolves. However, is it possible that wolves are having an economic effect in themselves? Though not decimating elk herds, are they reducing them enough to have a net negative economic impact? I will use the state of Idaho to analyze this potential problem. First we need to just see how lucrative elk hunting is to a state like Idaho.
Based on data from the Idaho Department of Fish and Game, in 2010 there were approximately 63,615 elk tags sold to resident hunters at $31.00 per tag. I don't count the hunting license they have to buy because that can be used for other animals. Here I just want to see what elk bring in. For out-of-state hunters, around 10,000 tags were sold for $416.00 plus a hunting license of $155.00 or $572.00 per hunter. I included the license fee here because many of these hunters come specifically to hunt elk. What these numbers give us is total revenue of $7,676,161.00 dollars going directly into the state coffers, usually to support the Fish and Game Department. As for the general economy, the politicians point to the millions of dollars hunters spend preparing for hunting and when hunting. This is primarily aimed at out of state hunters, new money to the state. Estimates range as low as $40/day to over $100/day hunters spend in the field. If we use the higher value of $100/day and an estimated 7 day trip (including travel and time in the field), the economic stimulus from out of state elk hunters is around another $7 million more dollars. This money goes into the coffers of local businesses and is indeed not a small amount of money. Any reduction in either of these amounts then could be viewed as adversely affecting the economy of the state. However before we decide to pull the trigger, let's look at the other side of the coin.
Having seen how much money elk hunting brings into the state, let's ask the question, would wolves be able to bring in money to the state and if so, how much? To analyze that, we need to turn to Idaho's neighbor, Wyoming, and specifically, what is happening in Yellowstone National Park. Here wolves were released in 1995 and initially, local towns around the Park complained of economic hardships because of the loss of elk hunters, etc. However, a mere 16 years later, little complaining can be heard from local businesses. This is because over that period of time, millions of people have come to Yellowstone to see wolves. The estimate is that of the 3.6 million visitors to Yellowstone Park in 2010, 44% (1.6 million) were specifically interested in seeing wolves. An average of 3.5% (127,407) said they would not have come to Yellowstone Park if they did not have the opportunity to hear or see wolves. What has this meant for local businesses? Based on the average amount visitors spent in the counties surrounding Yellowstone and just that 3.5% who would not have come without wolves, the estimate is that $22.5 million dollars could be attributable just to wolves. On the three state scale (Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana), the estimate strictly from people who specifically came to see wolves jumps to $35.5 million dollars. So not surprisingly, business owners around Yellowstone do not complain much lately. In fact, because wolves can be seen and heard year round, motels and restaurants have experienced booming business during the "off" seasons. So wolves bring in 3 times as much money to communities as do all of the out-of-state elk hunters in Idaho! It also means that the approximately 100 wolves in Yellowstone are worth $225,000 EACH!!!!
What about the outfitters and guides, do they still complain? Those that still rely only on elk hunters probably do but those who have adapted to the new market are doing well. One company offering ecotours, specifically to see wolves in the winter, had 650 people participate from 2006 to 2009 at a cost of $650 to $2,000 per person and brought in revenues of around a million dollars. And this is not the only one. A 2005 survey of 27 guides showed that over one year, 6,165 people participated (average of 228 clients per firm) in various outings to see wolves at an average cost of $761 per person, which brought in a total of $4.7 MILLION dollars! Divided by the 27 firms, this is an annual average gross income of $174,000 dollars per firm JUST FROM WOLVES!
Let's compare these numbers to the income guides can make from elk hunter clients. In Idaho, there are approximately 200 licensed elk guides. They charge anywhere from $600 to $1000 a day per person. Average trips are 5-7 days. Let's use 7 days and $1,000 dollars/days or an average trip income of $7,000 per person. The number of clients that were guided in 2009 was approximately 1,200. This then is an average revenue of $7.0 million dollars/year. Divide this among the 200 guides and each guide averages $35,000 per year just for elk; a modest sum that is earned over an approximate 3 month period, IF they guide for all weapon types. I guess that then leaves them free to make their living at second jobs the other 9 months of the year!
What if these same guides began guiding people to see and hear wolves? If each guide service offered trips to an average of 230 clients a year (mere 20 people a month) at an average cost of $761/person, each guide would bring in $175,000 a year per firm or $35 MILLION dollars! This is 5 times as much as elk guides bring in now! This brings up an important aspect regarding guiding for wolves, it can be done year round! There is no off season, unless you want to take a break from earning all that money! If guides are really concerned about making a living as guides, then they should look at the numbers and realize that adding predator watching to their menu will indeed enhance the bottom line year round!!! It is time outfitters and guides grasp this golden opportunity to expand their business into this lucrative area. They should not look at the return of wolves as hurting their business but as allowing them to expand it into unheard of growing markets that have no limit.
Why is there no limit? Where are all these clients going to come from? We are talking about ONLY 6,000 people a year! In Idaho alone in 2006, 419,000 people (61% from out of the state) went to view mammals! These are the most likely people to be interested in seeing or hearing wolves. All the elk guides in Idaho working year round would only be able to satisfy < 2% of their total potential market! This is an enormous untapped market where clients are literally beating on doors for you to take their money! Will guides be good businessmen and tap into this market or will they continue to cling to a seasonal business that brings in relatively small amounts of money compared to the potential for wolf watching?
It makes good business common sense for a company to change its product to serve a changing market otherwise it will go out of business. Companies that survive are those that switch from selling ice to selling refrigerators, from selling wagons to selling cars, from selling adding machines to selling computers,… from selling hunting elk to selling watching wolves. With or without wolves, guide revenue from elk hunting has and will continue to decline. If outfitters and guides do not add wolf watching to their mix, they will soon be selling a product few people want.
And their wolf watching clients will all spend money in the local towns! Imagine little towns like Challis in Central Idaho. If they became wolf "hotspots", guides and businesses would have a year round lucrative income! Wildlife watchers spend approximately $334/person so those 6,000 people would spend over $2 million dollars locally. This compares to $1.2 million spent by guided elk hunters. And that $2 million is less than 2% of what is possible! Nationwide, statewide, wildlife watchers spend more locally than hunters because there are just so many more of them! The number of mammal watchers nationwide continues to grow, topping 16.2 million in 2006 while the number of hunters at 12.5 million continues to decline about 1% a year. To not tap into this lucrative growing market just does not make good business sense!
So, yes, Idaho might lose some revenue from elk hunters but IF the state capitalizes on the profits that can be made from a public hungry to see and hear wolves, not only would those revenues make up for but greatly exceed any losses from wolves eating elk. In fact, the best use of elk may just be as food to support the wolf related industry! Are the politicians of Idaho cashing in on this potential? Noooo, instead they charge a person $11.50 to shoot a wolf that is easily worth over $100,000 alive!!??? By denying the potential income from wolves for the citizens of the state, politicians are committing an extreme economic injustice. They are denying the rural areas of needed revenue for schools, hospital, roads…. Their misguided actions are keeping these rural areas in economic backwaters as they insist on clinging to a shrinking market. If they truly had the economic wellbeing of rural constituents in their best interest, politicians should do the numbers and see that wolves are probably the best thing to happen to rural Idaho (and Montana and Wyoming) in a long time. Ecotourism, especially for viewing large carnivores is the economic engine of the future for states like Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. If politicians fail to realize the economic value of wolves, they are doing a tremendous disservice to their citizens by losing tens of millions of dollars of revenue.
The assistant director of the Idaho Department of Fish and Game commented in 2009 regarding estimating possible lost revenue from wolves impacting elk: "We've gone through this type of analysis… it helps illustrate for the public and the Legislature that there are economic costs to foregone opportunities." I agree with her whole hardily and conclude that the western states that now have wolves need to "go through this type of analysis" and look at the economic loss incurred from foregone opportunities for ecotourism relative to wolves. If they do the numbers as I have done, they will see that wolves are more valuable alive than dead and their current policies are indeed killing the golden goose.
THE TRUTH ABOUT COUGAR SIGHTINGS
WHAT STATE GAME AGENCIES SAY
"Cougar sightings are up, therefore, the population has increased."
WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY:
"In our experience during 1988-1992, at least 75% and perhaps as many as 95% of the routine sightings were cases where the observer has misidentified a bobcat, coyote, domestic dog, raccoon, or deer."
-- Dr. Paul Beier & Dr. Reginald H. Barrett: "The Cougar in the Santa Ana Mountain Range, California," June 1, 1993.
"80% of the calls the department receives about mountain lion sightings (in Placer County) are something else -- dogs, bobcats, or domestic cats."
-- Ryan Brodrick, Chief, Region II, California Department of Fish And Game, at Placer County Meeting on Mountain Lions, March 13, 1995.
SIGHTINGS DO NOT PROVIDE USEFUL INFORMATION ABOUT COUGAR POPULATIONS BECAUSE THEY ARE UNRELIABLE!
AND EVEN IF THERE IS A VERIFIED COUGAR SIGHTING:
"The California Department of Fish and Game (CDFG) logs hundreds of Wildlife Incident Reports annually related to mountain lion sightings. On average, fewer than three percent of these reports result in a mountain lion being identified as an imminent threat to public safety and killed under the CDFG's Wildlife Public Safety Guidelines.
The vast majority of these reports (79 percent) are resolved by providing information about the natural history and behavior of mountain lions. Another 18 percent of cases are legitimate threats posed by mountain lions that can be resolved by modifying human behavior."
-- California Department of Fish and Game Website, March 3, 2011 -- http://www.dfg.ca.gov/news/issues/lion/trends.html
A LETTER FROM MOUNTAIN LION FOUNDATION.
Below is a letter Tim, president of Mountain Lion foundation wrote and gave OreCat permission to reprint. Tim spells out very clearly the fundamental flaws consistently found in Statewide cougar "management" plans. The numbers don't add up and here in Oregon it is no different. Oregonians have been treated to the same flawed number system and wrong science. Please read this letter and prepare for yet another season of an irresponsible cougar management plan laced with lies about fears of children being attacked even though no child has been killed from cougars in 150 years. However, drugs, cars, guns and an occasional parent kill children every year. And no child was killed before or after the cats were shot to extinction in 36 States. And too many 3rd hand unsubstantiated stories from folks who want the cats killed, of cougar attacks or sightings. Isn't it time we stop getting manipulated by people who enjoy killing animals? There are safer and much better ways to protect Oregonians and cougar. Read the science in this letter and you will begin to understand how gun lobbyist and big game hunters will try to manipulate you for their personal hunting "rights".
MOUNTAIN LION FOUNDATION
Saving America s Lion ™
July 23, 2010
Mountain Lion Management Plan Comments
South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and Parks
523 E Capitol Avenue
Via Overnight Courier and email (chad.switzer@state.sd.us)
Re: Draft 2010 - 2015 South Dakota Mountain Lion Management Plan
To the South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and Parks Commission:
On behalf of the Mountain Lion Foundation (MLF) and our members and
supporters in South Dakota and throughout the United States, I present these
comments on the South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and Parks'
(SDGF&P) Draft 2010 - 2015 Mountain Lion Management Plan. The Mountain
Lion foundation is dedicated to protecting and conserving mountain lions
throughout the United States and in promoting peaceful coexistence between mountain lions and humans.
The Mountain Lion Foundation's review of South Dakota's Draft 2010-
2015 Mountain Lion Management Plan found the document full of conflicting numbers, flawed mathematical equations, bad scientific practices, faulty
assumptions, and a complete disregard of the basic biological and behavioral
qualities of the species. The following are our most vehement objections to
this Plan.
First, the South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and Parks have turned
the issue of managing the State's mountain lion population into a much narrower focus of managing mountain lions in the Black Hills.
The state of South Dakota encompasses 75,896 square miles of land. Of
this, the Black Hills region is less than seven percent ofthe state's land area.
SDGF&P's mountain lion management plan presents the Black Hills as the
"only" viable mountain lion habitat in South Dakota because this is where
resident territories and breeding populations are currently found.
What is not presented to the public is the fact that, until the species was extirpated from the state sometime around 1906, mountain lions could be
found throughout the entire state. Because of this human induced extinction,
South Dakota's mountain lion population is undergoing the slow process of
recolonization. A process which has slowed even further in consequence of the
disproportionate number of trophy-hunting related lion mortalities throughout the region (South Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana) which have vacated previously held resident territories.
Studies show that mountain lions are a highly adaptable species which can live in almost all types of environments ranging from high mountain forests to harsh desert canyons. A key determining factor for suitable lion habitat is the availability of their primary prey species--deer.
The National GAP Analysis Program's listing of suitable habitat, and prey species probability
virtually guarantees that mountain lions could exist almost anywhere within South Dakota.
Mountain lions as a species are biologically designed to disperse. Maturing juveniles have been
known to travel hundreds of miles to establish home range territories. By not allowing the species to roam, inbreeding will inevitably occur (as is seen with the approximately 100 panthers left in Florida) and the genetic health of the population will decline.
The bottom line is that mountain lions should be managed on a larger, regional scale and
not confined within the Black Hills. Until the recolonization process is complete, with a
mountain lion population appropriately scattered throughout the state, any discussion about overpopulation and habitat limits is premature.
Second, the relatively small size of South Dakota's mountain lion population, makes the
accurate estimate of population numbers critical in making any reasonable management decisions, and dramatically increases the margin of error risks. An analysis of SDGF&P's mountain lion population estimate raises several questions as to the validity of their population
growth mode" and identifies major errors in their mathematical calculations.
For example, SDGF&P's rate-of-growth calculation is based on the maximum growth rate, found in one study (Logan and Sweanor 2000L which took place in an environment totally
dissimilar to that found in South Dakota. In actuality, mountain lion growth rate values can and
do change annually in anyone area, and are highly dependent on unique geographic factors. By not looking beyond a single aspect of a single study, SDGF&P researchers are violating sound
analytical practices and have risked developing a population estimation formula which is likely
to be misleading and far from reality.
After creating this potentially faulty population growth model, SDGF&P attempted to justify their conclusions by using their 2007-2009 mountain lion harvest data. But according to them,
"No harvest occurred in 2008 due to movement of the harvest season to January 2009. Harvest data for 2009 provided a similar estimate of population size to that of 2007." The three years of
harvest data supposedly used for the population estimate is actually just 2007's mortality
numbers, which means they are relying on only one year's data to assume population trends.
SDGF&P rationalize this choice by saying 2009 was "similar" to 2007 and thus they only needed
to use results from one of the years. Their harvest data is noted below.
16 NH 15
3 NH 11
Yes, female mortality data was similar (16 to 15) but the male lion harvest (3 to 11)
increased drastically! That's up 267 percent ... how convenient to ignore the higher male
harvest year.
Even if you overlook the fact that they are only using one year's data to support a trend analysis, and selecting their favorite year to build upon, they still screwed up their calculations.
SDGF&P noted that in 2007, estimates of population size were generated for the female
segment of the population . ... " This decision was made... due to total harvest of one radio
collared male." At the time, South Dakota's collection of radio-collared lions totaled 35 (15 males, 20 females- page 29). When calculating the female segment of the population by harvest data from 2007, the harvest rate should therefore be calculated as 5/20 collared females, NOT 5/35 total (male + female) collared lions. This error in their mathematical calculations for population estimates on page 5 leads to a drastically different estimate of South Dakota's
mountain lion population.
A total of 16 total female lions were killed that year. Five of those killed were radio collared, thus 5 out of 20 radio-collared female mountain lions were killed (5/20 = 0.25 = 25 percent). So if those 16 lions represent 25 percent of the female population, then SDGF&P's data shows there could only be 64 female lions in the state (16 is 25 percent of 64). By dividing instead by 35 lions, the 112 lion result SDGF&P is presenting as females only, is actually a combination of males and females.
SDGF&P further compounds their error by assuming that their estimated female population
number represents 70 percent of the total lion population in South Dakota.
This 70 percent female estimate appears to be based on data from SDGF&P's own lion
harvest data for 2007 and 2009. During these two years, 31 females and 14 males were killed (45 total). The 31 females represent about 70 percent of the total harvest, so SDGF&P made a
giant leap in assuming 70 percent of the entire population must also be female, and thereby
able to create a lot of kittens. As justification for this assumption, SDGF&P researchers incorrectly cited Logan & Sweanor's research from a 2000 lion population study in New Mexico. Yes, Logan & Sweanor did find that their study population sometimes had slightly more
females than males because males have a higher mortality rate (via killing each other for home ranges and through competition for breeding females), and a female bias was noted in first time
litters, but in the end, Logan and Sweanor concluded "none of the annual comparisons of adult sex ratios in either area were significantly different from 1:1." This is clearly a case where
SDGF&P researchers once again only rely on a single source, and then "cherry-picked," data which would appear to validate their conclusions. Third, SDGF&P claims that the Black Hills can only support a population of some where between 150 to 200 lions and that recreational hunting quotas must increase to "ensure a
healthy, self-sustaining population of mountain lions in the Black Hills of South Dakota." They
base this conclusion of their assertion that there are currently 251 mountain lions (138 adults,
113 kittens) residing in the region.
MLF has clearly demonstrated the inaccuracy of SDGF&P's mountain lion population estimate. But even using the Departments own population estimate numbers it is disingenuous
to include "kittens," as if they were adults, just to create a false sense of overcrowding in order
to justify the need for an increase in the annual hunting quota.
In conclusion, the Mountain Lion Foundation finds that the South Dakota's Draft 2010-
2015 Mountain Lion Management Plan is poorly written, contains conflicting numbers (such as the total number of mortality events), has critical errors in their mathematical equations which profoundly affect their estimated population figures, and makes assumptions far beyond anything that can be proven with current research.
The Mountain Lion Foundation formally requests that the South Dakota Game, Fish and
Parks Commission reject this flawed document and authorize a complete audit of the process
as well as a peer review and second opinion on the proposed 2010 - 2015 Mountain Lion
Management Plan from credible outside experts.
Tim Dunbar
The Mountain Lion Foundation
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Refusal to balance the books with our natural resources and instead remain dependent on a dysfunctional and outdated system to manage our natural resources and wildlife, will destroy the Oregon we have all come to know and love. We pay a heavy price to look the other way. Oregonians need to make decisions about our natural resources that are anchored in truth, not secret meetings and bills passed without regard for public input or support primarily the interests of wealthy private hunting clubs. Yes, people in the city count. You drink from the watershed these cougars help keep healthy. You breath the air the forests help provide for you. Hunters are allowed to shoot pregnant elk. Wild sheep succumb to diseases from domestic sheep, Christmas tree growers have open season on deer (keeping 5 of all the deer they shoot) causing cougar to have less food that contributes to livestock conflict, yet the cougar is wrongfully exploited as the culprit for too many bad management plans that undermine the health and vitality of other species.
The problem is not out there in the wilderness or with a species of animal. The problem lies within us.
Why is it that you can kill a mother with dependent young
that can't live without her?
Where is the logic in all this ?? In the last 100 years 71 USA citizens have been officially attacked
by cougar, 3 died, one from rabies.
Every year in the USA 1/2 a million US citizens are crippled or disfigured from pet domestic dog
attacks, and 100 citizens die from these attacks. Yet we let the dog sleep at the foot of our bed
while killing to genetic extinction cougar in 36 States!
Every year here in Oregon more hunters, poachers, and children shoot each other
than are killed by cougar (zero) and many die from these hunting or poaching accidents.
How can you call it an accident when you are looking at the person!
You will hear 2nd and 3rd hand stories from hunters regarding cougar attacks, but truth is most of these
big fish are stories or issues the hunters brought on themselves from harassing the great cat.
Do the math...a single cougar's range is about 150 miles. So, if there are 10 hunters or non-hunters
scattered in this 150 mile range and they all saw a cougar but did not know it was the same cougar, how
many times many times is that cougar counted? Right, it is counted by everyone who saw the cougar.
So that one cougar becomes on paper, not one but 10 cougar.
How can we have an increase of cougar sightings when we have not been counting them for too
few years to compare?


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The Silent Reflux
By: Dr Lau Chee Chong
Many patients know of GERD (gastro-oesophageal reflux disease), where acidic stomach contents are returned back up the oesophagus, often with a burning sensation in the chest (heartburn). However, reflux may occur without alerting symptoms of heartburn. This is known as laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR) – the 'silent reflux'.
Because most people do not realise that reflux can occur without heartburn, LPR is often under-diagnosed or misdiagnosed as other conditions with similar characteristics.
In LPR cases, the acidic stomach contents are returned beyond the oesophagus, reaching the throat and back of the nose, causing various problems in these areas.
The pharynx and larynx serve as a passageway for air to reach the lungs and for food to reach the stomach via the oesophagus. At each end of the oesophagus is a muscular ring (sphincter), which prevent regurgitation of the contents of the stomach. When these sphincters are incompetent, acidic stomach contents can regurgitate back into the oesophagus, sometimes reaching the throat and back of the nose. This commonly occurs when an LPR patient lies horizontally, such as while sleeping.
The regurgitated contents include stomach acids that irritate and burn the sensitive larynx. Saliva is alkaline and the lining of the oral cavity and throat are resistant to alkaline media, but not to acidic media. LPR patients usually do not experience heartburn because the oesophagus is more resistant to acid than the larynx.
LPR is common in infants and children because their oesophageal sphincters are underdeveloped, they have shorter oesophagus, and they are often lying horizontally.
Snoring and obstructive sleep apnea canpredispose a patient to LPR.
Excessive throat clearing and hoarseness
Chronic cough that worsens at night and wakes one up from sleep; even mild airway infections or irritants can trigger violent coughing fits in throats already sensitised by LPR
Throat discomfort, dryness or soreness, made worse by swallowing saliva
Sensation of a lump in the throat
Excessive phlegm in the throat
Bitter taste at the back of the throat
Exacerbated asthma, bronchitis or upper airway infection
Potential Complications
In infants:
Subglottic narrowing
Ulcer or inflammatory polyps in the larynx
Regurgitation and vomiting
Middle ear inflammation
In adults:
Ulcers, polyps and granulomas in the larynx
Increased risk of cancer of the throat and oesophagus
LPR is often misdiagnosed and incorrectly treated as chronic cough, sinusitis, pharyngitis, tonsillitis, allergy, or as psychosomatic
Videorhinolaryngoscopy often reveals congestion and inflammation, and – in severe cases – granulations, ulcers and polyps
pH monitoring
Treatment: Lifestyle Modifications
Small and frequent meals; avoid heavy meals
Stop eating and drinking two to three hours before bedtime
Avoid spicy food and carbonated or acidic drinks, eg citrus juice and vinegar
Elevate the head of the bed by four to six inches
Avoid tight-fitting clothes around the waist
Lose weight (obesity increases LPR)
Manage stress (stress raises gastric acidity)
Chew gum (it increases saliva production, which neutralises acid)
Get treated for snoring and obstructive sleep apnea
Treatment: Medical and Surgical
Anti-acid medications (eg proton pump inhibitors)
Prokinetic agents such as Motillium (to promote gastric emptying and increase oesophageal sphincter pressure)
In severe cases, surgery to tighten the lower oesophageal sphincter may be considered
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Former world No.1 Lydia Ko wins first title since 2016
Posted 11:05 AM, May 1, 2018, by CNN Wire
Lydia Ko celebrates after winning the Mediheal Championship at Lake Merced Golf Club.
It was perhaps no surprise that Lydia Ko wiped away the tears after clinching a dramatic playoff win.
The former world No.1 had not tasted victory for nearly two years, but the New Zealander produced what she described as the best shot of her career to clinch the LPGA Mediheal Championship in California Sunday.
In 2015, aged just 17, Ko became the youngest player to top the rankings, but prior to Sunday she had not won a tournament in 43 events — since the Marathon Classic in July 2016.
"I think this is definitely one of the most special wins in my whole entire career obviously – – it's been a while since my last win so to be able to be back inside the winners circle is a nice feeling," she told CNN Sport.
"To have my family there and some of my friends — I've never been that emotional before"
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Since her last Tour win, the two-time major winner has changed her swing, her caddie, her coach, her equipment, and suffered a slide down the world rankings — in February she slipped out of the top 10 for the first time since her brilliant professional debut in 2013.
"I try to stay away from the media and what was said about me, I just focus on what I can control," said Ko, who was born in Seoul, South Korea but moved to New Zealand as an infant.
"It may have looked like I didn't make the right decision, but at no point did I regret anything and I felt like my game was moving in the right direction."
Just five days after her 21st birthday, Ko's fortunes turned at Lake Merced Golf Club, the venue of back-to-back wins in 2014 and 2015.
With both Ko and Minjee Lee tied at 12 under after regulation play, the championship went to extra holes.
Masters 2018: Augusta abuzz as anticipation builds for major
On the first, the par-five 18th, Ko responded to the pressure with a sensational 3-wood approach shot to within inches of an albatross (two shots on a par five). It left her with a three-foot putt for an eagle, which she sunk for a 15th Tour victory.
"I nearly almost cried after playing the 72nd hole even though I knew I had to play more golf," said Ko, who won silver in the 2016 Rio Olympics.
"By showing people what I went through, I think it just felt more special."
'A lot of emotion'
Ko went into the final round with a one-stroke lead, but she slipped back with three bogeys in the first six holes.
In a final round where the lead changed four times, Ko rallied over the last nine holes — recording three birdies and a bogey — to take the championship to a playoff.
"It's crazy because I was three over for the day at one point," Ko told reporters. "I said, 'hey, you've just got to focus, you never know what could happen' – and I was able to kind of put my game together on the back nine.
"When that putt dropped I was like, 'Oh my God.' A lot of emotions, my whole team and my family have worked really hard for this moment."
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The Kohler Center focuses on funding student planning programs and fostering for-profit business, while the Social Innovation Initiative manages non-profit businesses. Both have teamed up over the last year to provide Marquette a space to unleash creativity and work on business prototypes.
The new Hub is on the first floor of the 707 Building and is packed with resources available to students, faculty and staff. The space is available for anyone to come with business ideas, meet with mentors and work on different prototypes. The Hub is used as a social space as well.
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