Cougar
Black Bears
People who live in rural communities get used to living with wild animals like cougars, moose and bears. But folks in suburban Boston aren’t as used to having black bears for neighbors, and their numbers are becoming more numerous because of habitat restoration and restrictions on hunting. Steve Tripoli of member station WBUR in Boston […]
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, […]