Editorial: California needs housing, but not in mountain lion country
The mountain lions of Southern California - facing dangerous freeway traffic, lethal poisons in their prey and the continued encroachment of humans into their habitat - are threatened with extinction. The question now is how much we care and what we're willing to do, spend or sacrifice to protect them.
The state outlawed hunting mountain lions three decades ago, so we haven't decimated them the way we did the grizzly bear. There are estimated to still be almost 6,000 in
