Mountain Lions
Mountain lion populations in western U.S. and Canada are as high as they have been in decades — but there are far more people in the West as well — and with the steady spread of suburbs into the mountains, there are more encounters than ever before between mountain lions and humans. Clay Scott reports, from the Black Hills of South Dakota.
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