by veronica | May 15, 2013 | events and outreach, media, santa cruz pumas
During recent talks and outreach events we’ve had some questions from local landowners about our puma data. Just to clear up any misunderstandings, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife does not allow us to make real time location data available to the...
by veronica | Feb 20, 2013 | events and outreach, Uncategorized
Last week Yiwei and I got to go talk with 5th, 7th, and 1st graders at Hillbrook School in Los Gatos. We brought along some of our field equipment and a puma skin from the UCSC Natural History Collection. After the talks were over, the first graders even lined up so...
by veronica | Aug 10, 2012 | Uncategorized
Habitat fragmentation and destruction cause big problems for far-ranging animals like pumas. There are obvious effects, like when 16M got hit by a car on Highway 17, but there are more cryptic problems as well. Here is a recent article on how roads and human...
