Until very recently, there was really no scientifically rigorous way to get an accurate read on lion numbers. It is true that there was concern about the health and size of the population in the late '60s and early '70s, even from sportsman's groups, which is why the moratorium was enacted in...
The bulk of El Dorado County has actually remained relatively static in terms of human population/development--the Highway 50 corridor has an increase, particularly around longstanding Sacramento bedroom communities like Cameron Park and El Dorado Hills, but the outlying areas are still pretty...
I'm the uncle of Taylen and Wyatt Brooks. The rate of attacks on humans in California has in fact snowballed since 117 declared the mountain lion a "specially protected species," and stripped what was then the Department of Fish and Game of any meaningful management authority. There were only...