High Country News

Results for keyword: mountain lions

I don't love my dog

It's hard to love your dog when she keeps rolling in dead animals and bringing half-eaten deer parts into your formerly tranquil home.

by Laura Pritchett, Feb 24, 2012
A frantic lion meets the border wall

The U.S.-Mexico border wall does nothing to stop either drugs or illegal immigrants, but it sure can frustrate roaming wildlife, including mountain lions.

by Janay Brun, Nov 29, 2011
Ordinary wild

A cougar roams downtown El Paso, and a faraway writer watching on YouTube re-encounters wildness.

by Sarah Gilman, Jun 09, 2011
Winterkill

What might seem like a grisly discovery – a deer killed by a mountain lion – confirms the place of all living things, including humans, in the circle of life.

by Tim Lydon, Apr 06, 2010
Cougars in chaos

Washington’s cougar population is in serious trouble, and some trace recent problems back to a 1996 ban on hunting the big cats with hounds.

by Liza Gross, Apr 14, 2008
Heard Around the West

Santa Fe coyotes replaced by mountain lions; cat problems in Colorado; bunny restraining order in Oregon; dead snakes bite back; mysterious things in a dead bird’s tummy.

by Jonathan Thompson, Sep 03, 2007
Heard around the West

"Pit bulls with flippers" in Newport Beach; mountain lion problems; Lewis the Cat; don’t try this on the highway; Fighting Sioux fight for sports team name

by Betsy Marston, Jul 24, 2006
Prey at the waterhole

The experience of watching a mountain lion is utterly transformed when the watcher realizes he is the one being watched

by Craig Childs, Jul 24, 2006
Dr. Sharon and the lion hunters

Small-animal veterinarian Sharon Senezcko has become a fierce advocate for South Dakota’s mountain lions

by Tom Domek, Feb 20, 2006
Politics, prejudice and predators

In Predatory Bureaucracy, Michael J. Robinson traces the history of the U.S. Biological Survey, particularly its war on wolves

by Lee Ross, Dec 26, 2005