Mountain Lions of the Black Hills

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MOUNTAIN LIONS OF THE BLACK HILLS ...

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Mountain Lions of the Black Hills HISTORY AND ECOL OGY JONATHAN A. JENKS Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore ...

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CONTENTS Preface vii 1 Introduction Acknowl edgments ix 2 Ecol ogy of the Black Hills 3 Characteristics of Black Hills Mountain ...

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vii PREFACE The chapters of this book cover differing but in some aspects overlapping objectives for the study of mountain lions ...

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ix ACKNOWL EDGMENTS The long- term nature of the information in this book required support from numer- ous individuals and agenc ...

x Acknowl edgments these proj ects, and ensured the success of their proj ects. We learned much about the species in a relativel ...

2 Ecol ogy of the Black Hills ...

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1 I was first introduced to the Black Hills in 1991 as a new assistant professor at South Dakota State University (SDSU). I had ...

2 Mountain Lions of the Black Hills virginianus) and evaluating their use of arboreal lichen (Usnea sp.) (Jenks and Leslie 1988, ...

figure 1.2. White spruce– ponderosa pine forest of the northern Black Hills. Some trees have arboreal lichen hanging from their ...

4 Mountain Lions of the Black Hills americana), a species formerly extinct in the region that had recently been reintro- duced b ...

Introduction 5 Regarding the Dakota mountain lions, Roo se velt ([1885] 2004, 658) wrote: “Though the mountain lion prefers wood ...

6 Mountain Lions of the Black Hills when they approached campsites, and because of this trait, he labeled the animal “a most arr ...

Introduction 7 Few documented sightings of the species occurred during the 1970s in the Black Hills region. These limited sighti ...