Kyle Odegard of the MidValley Newspapers in Oregon’s Willamette Valley has been following the tale of Wilson, a young cougar bounding around the Corvallis area late this month. The cat has sparked editorials and letters to the editor, and now the reporter posts this interesting entry about how the cougar has actually backed the Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife into a corner. “Some people have suggested that the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife is using the young Corvallis cougar as propaganda, that the agency is spreading fear and hatred toward mountain lion-kind, all in an attempt to annihilate the big cats,” writes Odegard in the newspaper chain’s Not Fit For Print blog. “Don’t buy that argument. It’s pure bunk.”
