Progress creating connection across the 17
Project post doc, Max Allen, and I recently went out in the field with Tanya Diamond and Ahiga Snyder from Pathways for Wildlife to see where the Santa Cruz County Land Trust will build the new wildlife crossing culvert under Highway 17. We started off our hike with...
Puma sighting on UCSC campus
A UCSC Cruz Alert was sent out on November 28 warning of two mountain lions spotted near the base of the UCSC campus. Mountain lions do occasionally move through campus property, due to the many preserved acres of land in Upper Campus and Pogonip, and the adjacency of...
Mountain view puma (46m) killed on Highway 280
Remember 46M, the puma that wandered into downtown Mountain View a few months ago? Well he had quite a journey for the last 5 months until he was hit by a car on Hwy 280 a few days ago. After capturing him in downtown Mt. View and releasing him back in the mountains...
Today’s Attack
We would like to send our thoughts and sympathies to the little boy who was attacked by a mountain lion in Cupertino today and to his family. We hope he has a very quick and thorough recovery. We have information about what to do if you encounter a mountain lion on...
News Report on an Upcoming Wildlife Crossing on Hwy17
Last night, KSBW reported on the very exciting progress the Land Trust of Santa Cruz County is making towards creating wildlife connectivity across Highway 17. The Land Trust of Santa Cruz County is working on purchasing 290 acres of land that straddles Laurel Curve,...
A bird’s eye view
Every month, one of our biologists goes up in a plane to try to locate all of our study animals and download the GPS information from their collars. Flying is the most efficient way to download the GPS data because we can cover much more ground than driving. We are...
Santa Cruz Puma Project featured on Science Nation
The Santa Cruz Puma Project was featured on this week's Science Nation video from the National Science Foundation, entitled, "Bio-logging collar reveals unprecedented detail about California mountain lions". This video shows three very important components of the puma...
New Exciting Video About Local Habitat Connectivity!
POST and Pathways for Wildlife have partnered up and put together an excellent video about culverts and Highway 17! In the video, Tanya Diamond and Ahiga Snyder explain some of the work they've been doing to increase habitat connectivity across such a formidable...
Milestone puma #50 joins the Santa Cruz Puma Project!
The following guest post was written by Puma Project field technician Sean McCain: Today’s goal was to make a final attempt to access 19F’s den site and collar her two five-week-old kittens so we could monitor them into adulthood. This would be our final attempt...
Mountain lion kills deer on camera.
We recently captured this rare footage of a mountain lion killing a deer fawn in front of one of our remote cameras. Notice that the puma is holding the neck of the fawn and the fawn occasionally tries to wriggle free. This appears to be the strategy by which pumas...
