by rking | Nov 21, 2019 | featured, field notes, puma ecology, santa cruz pumas, video
Back in late August we got a call from a landowner in Scottsvalley about a deer that had been killed by a puma on her property. The puma had caught the deer on a long driveway leading up to residences at a little after dusk. The driveway had fences to either side with...
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 paulh | May 15, 2016 | puma bios, pumas in the news, santa cruz pumas
On May 18 2015, a young male puma wandered deep into San Mateo. He was caught by California Department of Fish and Wildlife wardens and transported back into nearby open space. We met the wardens near the release site to place a collar on him. One year later, 56M is...
by paulh | Nov 1, 2015 | field notes, santa cruz pumas
Sunrise from Mt Umhunum. Fog in the Santa Clara Valley. Nighttime lights of New Almaden. My day started early today in the Sierra Azul Open Space Preserve. I had been out since 5:30am searching for puma 26M in order to locate him for recapture. My plan was to start...
by paulh | Oct 18, 2015 | field notes, puma bios, puma ecology, santa cruz pumas
We recaptured puma 38F last week. She’s a 4 year old female. 38F’s previous claim to fame was being the star of a great web video that was produced by San Francisco’s KQED and the eventual mother of this cute little guy… Using radio-telemetry collars, like we...
by cwilmers | Oct 2, 2015 | field notes, puma bios, puma ecology, santa cruz pumas
Remember 36m? This is the guy whose home range included the UCSC campus and went all the way up north close to Big Basin! This is 36M’s territory. Each circle is a GPS location separated by up to 4 hours. One day he even decided to make a kill within...
