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  • Researchers track Colorado cougars

    Researchers track Colorado cougars

    The state’s Parks and Wildlife department is studying how the big cats live in the state’s urbanized Front Range in hopes of helping people coexist with them.

    by Rhea Maze, Mar 04, 2013
  • Will Los Angeles bring its cougars back from the brink?

    Will Los Angeles bring its cougars back from the brink?

    With just a handful of mountain lions left in the Santa Monica Mountains, Californians must decide whether they care enough about wildness to fund key habitat connections. Subscribers only

    by Judith Lewis Mernit, Mar 04, 2013

  • Lion plan draws heat from scientists, enviros

    The Oregon state Department of Fish and Wildlife wants to cut mountain lion numbers by as much as 40 percent over the next five years

    by Brett Wilkison, May 29, 2006
  • Live and let live

    Live and let live

    Mountain lions can be dangerous, but the risk is over-rated and well worth accepting for those of us who want to live in a truly wild West.

    by Dan Miller, Aug 10, 2011

  • Cougar hunt creates uproar

    Following a flurry of sightings and a much-publicized, ill-starred hunt for mountain lions in Sabino Canyon near Tucson, Arizonans push for changes in how the state manages its big cats

    by Tony Davis, May 24, 2004

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