Looking forward to seeing folks at the 14th Annual WAFWA Mountain Lion Workshop this week

Repost from X:

CDFW wrapped up wolf capture & collar operations recently in northern CA resulting in a record 12 wolves now outfitted w/ satellite collars. Collar data provides info to understand diet, dispersal, pack formations & help mitigate conflicts w/ ranchers

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Turbulence moving through rock over hundreds of year withering down and creating a path once over now through the rocks, the sun peering through the pines, the roar of water cascading down behind me from Bassi Falls. A gorgeous Saturday in the woods and perfect way to end November.

Reposting this but as an addition to the ocelot PVA published last week, earlier this year we published “Assessing ecological and socio-political factors in site selection for ocelot reintroduction in Texas”

conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🚨🚨 new ocelot manuscript 🚨🚨
“Our study est the 1st pop viability model for an ocelot reintroduction plan anywhere across the species' wide geographic range, & it reinforces several key considerations for wildlife reintroduction efforts worldwide”

esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Hey Current/New Followers - I’m Jason Lombardi, Ph.D.; I’m a carnivore ecologist. CA DFW Mt Lion Cons. Program Lead Scientist & Gray Wolf Program Research Ecologist 🐺 IUCN Cat SG Red List Assessor; 🐆Texas Ocelot Reintroduction Project Partner

Aspens and Pines grace the bottom of the escarpment of the eastern Sierra Nevada, the windswept leaves laid strewn across the ground…

The Agassi Tree, the largest Giant Sequoia in Calaveras Big Tree State Park in the northern Sierra Nevada. This tree is "only" 250 feet tall, but it is over 25 feet in diameter six feet above the ground!