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Wolf expansion in Wyoming curtails puma population

January 12, 2021

It was February 1999, and a pack of five wolves had just made their way into the National Elk Refuge in northwest Wyoming. The new pack, which had moved south from Yellowstone and Grand Teton …

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WM: Puma harvest bolsters elk population in western Montana

December 11, 2020

Mountain lion predation is the main cause of death in young elk calves in western central Montana, but increased harvest on the big cats can result in larger ungulate population numbers over time. The discovery …

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California wildfires may have killed hundreds of cougars

October 29, 2020

Wildfires that tore through California have killed up to 600 mountain lions, according to a recent estimate. Fires in the western state have burned more than 4 million acres of land, including land where mountain …

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California cougar fails to adopt orphaned kittens

October 14, 2020

A pair of orphaned cougar kittens are in a sanctuary after biologists were unable to get a female cougar (Puma concolor) to foster them. California Department of Fish and Wildlife biologists found the 3-week-old kittens …

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Crossing a California freeway, a mountain lion finds new ground

August 15, 2019

The National Park Service has documented a rare case of a mountain lion crossing a major California freeway that runs past the Santa Monica Mountains. It’s the first time a GPS-collared mountain lion (Puma concolor) …

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Cougar question has possible ESA implications

July 12, 2016

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed the delisting of the Eastern puma, an extinct cougar subspecies. While reviewing the proposal, scientists have suggested that there may have never been any subspecies. All cougars …

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