Results for keyword: mountain lions
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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 28, 2011 -
Ordinary wild
A cougar roams downtown El Paso, and a faraway writer watching on YouTube re-encounters wildness.
by Sarah Gilman, Jun 08, 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






