by rking | Mar 12, 2019 | field notes, puma ecology, pumas in the news, santa cruz pumas, Uncategorized
March 7th, 2019 we got a report that a mountain lion was spotted on a residential property in Saratoga, CA. California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) personnel headed out to investigate and found a young female mountain lion hiding underneath a pine tree in...
by mallen | Sep 21, 2015 | Uncategorized
This is a pair of 2 week old puma kittens. We make our initial visit to dens at 2 weeks in order to confirm it is a den and count how many kittens were born. We return at 4 weeks to place collars on kittens in order to track their growth and survival. Our published...
by jsmith | Jun 23, 2015 | Uncategorized
On Saturday, June 20, post-doc Max Allen, technician Chris Fust, and I parked in a grassy field in Wilder Ranch with one mission in mind. We were setting out to visit what we believed to be a newly established den by 25F, a female puma that lives primarily in Wilder....
by veronica | May 15, 2015 | Uncategorized
We hear that pumas are good climbers and jumpers, but we don’t often get to see it. This awesome series of photos shows 51M, a ~4 year old male we originally collared in November, turning around on a tree trunk, climbing down, and then leaping to the ground. ...
by veronica | Apr 17, 2015 | events and outreach, Uncategorized
I would like to say a huge huge thank you to everyone who helped make the depredation prevention workshop possible yesterday! In particular, I would like to thank my co-organizer, Lewis Reed, Grey Hayes and the CCRC Education and Outreach Committee, the Santa Lucia...
by jsmith | Apr 16, 2015 | Uncategorized
The Santa Cruz Puma Project has been ramping up our captures in the last month in order to better study the puma population of the Santa Cruz Mountains. Here’s an introduction to 52F, 53F, 54M, and 55F! 52F is 5 years old and about 80 lbs. She has two kittens...
