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North America's biggest cat is making a comeback and seems to be heading east in the process. After retreating to the western half of the country for more than a century, scores of cougars--a.k.a. mountain lions--have been spotted in the Midwest in recent years, thanks to the species-protection programs enacted by most Western states in the 1960s. And though the number of tawny carnivores in places like Illinois, Iowa and Missouri is still small--since 2003, only two dozen sightings have been confirmed in the Midwest--Clay Nielsen, a wildlife ecologist at Southern Illinois University...
Three more Crimson possessions yielded zero points. Three more turns down the court for the Cougars resulted in three easy close-range finishes, including a thunderous dunk. A couple of timeouts weren’t enough to stop the bleeding, as Cougar forward Stanley Jackson brought the packed John Kreese Arena crowd to its feet with an up-and-under dunk—its sixth basket in the paint in the first three minutes...
...dawn the next day, the Wolf Pack had reached Objective Cougar, the Imam al-Shafi Mosque that insurgent leaders used as a meeting point and command center. It sat midway down 3rd Platoon's southward advance through Fallujah's Askari district, home to many former Iraqi military officers. It had been long evacuated and been heavily fortified in anticipation of a U.S. invasion, but commanders had received reports that as many as 150 foreign fighters were ensconced in the area; the battle figured to be tough. Footage taken by an aerial drone earlier in the week showed that the area...
...refreshing to see a conservation problem on the cover, rather than war or politics, subjects that seem to dominate the headlines these days. I am an avid outdoorsman and work outside most of the time, but I had never in my 34 years seen a cougar?until last week. Driving to work one morning, I saw a big cougar leap out in front of my car, and in three bounds it was across the road and into a farmer's field. I have never seen a more graceful animal. That cougar is living within a stone's throw of farmhouses...
...refreshing to see a conservation problem on the cover, rather than one about the war or politics, subjects that seem to dominate the headlines these days. I am an avid outdoorsman and work outside most of the time, but in my 34 years I had never seen a cougar until last week. Driving to work one morning, I saw a big cougar leap in front of my car, and in three bounds it was across the road and into a farmer's field. I have never seen a more graceful animal. That cougar is living within a stone's throw...