TETON COUGAR PROJECT
The Teton Cougar Project was initiated in 2000 in Kelly, Wyoming to better understand the critical roles cougars (mountain lions) play as part of the Southern Yellowstone Ecosystem. To date the project has documented the movements, prey selection, behavior and population dynamics of over 120 individuals. It is led by Dr Mark Elbroch and overseen by wild cat conservation group Panthera. The week before Christmas 2014 I went into the Gros Ventre Wilderness a vast wild landscape in western Wyoming with the biologists on their annual capture of a cat they were studying.
