Jul 24, 2017 | Bay Area, Media Coverage, Science Magazines
More on our puma fearing people paper from Peter Fimrite at the SF Chronicle and Paul Rogers at the San Jose Mercury news.“People allude to this idea all the time — that mountain lions are more afraid of us than we are of them. But science has never shown that...
Oct 27, 2014 | Bay Area, Education/Outreach, Media Coverage
The Land Trust of Santa Cruz County Board of Trustees named Dr. Jodi McGraw and Dr. Chris Wilmers Conservationists of the Year at an event on Sunday, October 5. The award was in recognition of their work in setting the priorities of the Land Trust and in educating the...
Jan 16, 2014 | Bay Area, Media Coverage
Coverage in the Sentinel about our carnivore paper in Science today. Two UC Santa Cruz ecologists are among the authors of a global review of large carnivore populations published Jan. 10 in the journal Science. The international group of scientists warns that...
Nov 1, 2013 | Bay Area, Media Coverage
Santa Cruz’ famous downtown mountain lion was struck and killed while crossing Highway 17 early Thursday morning near Vine Hill Road. The lion’s body was given to UC Santa Cruz researchers, who helped capture the wayward puma in June and fitted it with a...
Oct 3, 2013 | Bay Area, Media Coverage, NPR, Videos
Great NPR video documentary on our mountain lion – habitat fragmentation study
Aug 11, 2013 | Bay Area, Media Coverage
SF Chronicle profile piece. The image above is a flyer for a movie inspired by the article which my graduate students will be producing. Professor Chris Wilmers waggled the head of the fake deer in the equipment room of his UC Santa Cruz laboratory to demonstrate how...
