May 16, 2013 | Bay Area, Media Coverage
It was a crazy day. A mountain lion made its way into downtown Santa Cruz, and we got a call from the police to come help them and the CA Dept of Fish and Wildlife anesthetize the cat and move it to safety. Lots of coverage on this one. Read about it in the...
May 1, 2013 | Bay Area, Media Coverage, NPR, Science Magazines
Here’s a great article by Liza Gross in KQED’s Quest. It ties our recent puma work nicely together with other work on predator effects on ecosystem function. … These “top down” trophic cascades, which the ecologists dubbed “trophic downgrading,”...
Jan 26, 2013 | Bay Area, Media Coverage
Sometimes I am amazed at how easily mountain lions make it into the news! Here’s a story in the San Jose Merc about a lion caught on camera at UC’s Blue Oak Reserve in the Hamilton range… The lion photographed weighs more than 100 pounds. Wilmers...
Jan 24, 2013 | Bay Area, Media Coverage, Science Magazines
Here’s a great all around article about wolves by Liza Gross, just appearing in QUEST, which draws on some of our research in Yellowstone and Alaska. Though Ecology 101 tells us that healthy ecosystems need top predators, researchers are just beginning to...
Dec 28, 2012 | Bay Area, Media Coverage
From the San Jose Mercury News and Santa Cruz Sentinel, an interesting article relating our recent otter/carbon paper to California’s new carbon emission trading program. Designated by the California Air Resources Board, carbon offset credits qualify as...