When mountain lions began appearing more often on trail cameras at a small California nature preserve, coyotes and deer shifted away from nighttime activity, and the woody plants those deer used to ea

Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, known by its Ohlone name ‘Ootchamin ‘Ooyakma, sits about 45 miles south of San Francisco in a patch of oak woodland and grassland managed by Stanford University. Between 2015 and 2020, motion-activated trail cameras on the preserve began recording mountain lions with increasing frequency. The lions were visitors, not residents: territories […] Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, known by its Ohlone name ‘Ootchamin ‘Ooyakma, sits about 45 miles south of San Francisco in a patch of oak woodland and grassland managed by Stanford University. Between 2015 and 2020, motion-activated trail cameras ... [5343 chars]