A 140-pound male cougar was too close for comfort, hanging around homes and a school near Enumclaw. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife trapped the animal and then “hard released” the cougar using  Karelian Bear Dogs and shooting  bean bags to scare the animal away so it won’t return to the neighborhood. Fish and Wildlife [...]

An article in the Seattle Times and Wenatchee World about a rare cougar photo is stirring local comments in the Wenatchee area. Brad Thomas of Wenatchee captured this photo with a remote camera of a group of up to eight cougars East of Wenatchee. The photo is unique in that rarely do cougars congregate in [...]

Earlier this month Steve Scher, host of the popular NPR-KUOW radio show ‘Weekday’ joined me in the field to talk bears. Steve was piecing together a story about the bears of Washington and wanted an opportunity to learn about some of the work GBOP and our partners do on the ground. We met at Tradition [...]

Announcing the release of Cougar Ecology and Conservation edited by Maurice Hornocker and Sharon Negri. Internationally renowned biologist Maurice Hornocker and long time conservationist Sharon Negri have joined forces to produce Cougar Ecology and Conservation, a seminal go-to resource for scientists, wildlife managers, biologists, conservationists, and anyone who has an interest in large carnivores. A rare [...]