
December 2019
Mountain Lion in the Range December saw two bighorn sheep fall victim to mountain lion predation in the northern Santa Rosa Mountains. A radio-collared ewe and an unmarked ram were found dead in close proximity to each other and were likely killed by the same cat. While mountains lions primarily prey on deer, they will occasionally switch to bighorn sheep. Most of the sheep in the Peninsular Ranges are unmarked so it’s always possible that there were more mortalities, but