The Myth of the Lion: Cougars are gone and they’re not coming back
By Hugh Markey On a sunny spring day, I met a middle aged couple along the trail of a state land management area. He was tall and lanky, gray-bearded and sporting a keffiyeh. She was short, plump and apple cheeked. Both wore binoculars with a harness that identified them as serious birders. We were all there to see the warbler migration, and we struck up a conversation. We touched on […]
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