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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Cougars on the edge]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Cougars]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Human-animal relationships]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Populations]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Boulder, Colorado]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Cougars once occupied a range in the Western Hemisphere larger than that of any terrestrial mammal (other than humans) since the Pleistocene (Rabinowitz 2010). Highly adaptable, cougars inhabited deserts, grasslands, tropical rainforests, temperate mountains, and boreal forests. After Europeans settled North America, however, they virtually eliminated eastern cougar populations and dramatically reduced western populations in an effort to protect livestock and valued game species, and also to protect themselves. Later, government funded control and bounty programs, along with widespread unregulated killing of predators in the late 1800s and early 1900s, contributed to further cougar population declines.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Alldredge, Mathew W.]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[2011]]></dcterms:created>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-NC/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted</a>]]></dcterms:rights>
    <dcterms:isPartOf><![CDATA[The Wildlife Professional]]></dcterms:isPartOf>
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    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[5 pages]]></dcterms:extent>
    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[English]]></dcterms:language>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Article]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:bibliographicCitation><![CDATA[Alldredge, M. W. 2011. Cougars on the edge. The Wildlife Professional 5:72–76.]]></dcterms:bibliographicCitation>
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