Idaho trappers catch lynx; animal gets collar
State biologists have put a satellite-tracking collar on a female Canada lynx captured alive by two trappers in northern Idaho.
The Spokesman-Review reports (http://bit.ly/1iAloo0) the trappers called the Idaho Department of Fish and Game last week after finding the 17-pound lynx in one of their traps in the West Cabinet Mountains.
The agency is in the middle of a five-year attempt to collect information on 20 little-studied creatures in the Idaho Panhandle and northeastern Washington.
"I was surprised that there were lynx in the West Cabinets," said Michael Lucid, who's heading up the Multi-Species Baseline Initiative for Idaho Fish and Game. "It shows us how little we know about the animals that live in our forests."
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