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To: cosmicforce who wrote (38)	7/15/2009 7:13:18 PM
From: Tommy Moore	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2777

Actually the logging done today is more patch logging, which actually enhances conditions for deer by providing open spaces for grazing. More deer more cougars. Several years back we had a close encounter with an adult cougar along with it's two yearling cubs. The cats had taken a deer in the parking lot of our field office, then dragged it off into some brush to feed on it over successive days. Little old lady came for a visit (actually she came to complain about excessive noise) and very nearly got into a tug of war with one of the cats when it decided to snatch her Sheltie which she had on a leash. Shooed the cat off, but then called in the Conservation Officer who arrived the next day with hounds. Treed the cats, tranqued them and we threw them in the back of a live trap. It was our understanding they were taken up somewhere in the Fraser Canyon and released, which is pretty much the location of the town mention in the originating story. CO said this family of cougars would require a deer a week to survive. It's frequently the yearlings that get themselves in trouble, abandoned by their mothers, they may struggle for feed and territory.