Proceedings of the Seventh Mountain Lion Workshop

38 NEVADA MOUNTAIN LION STATUS REPORT · Woolstenhulme
license and tag. All other lions become the
property of the State.
The USDA, APHIS/ADC, may be
contacted to do control work any time of
year. The APHIS/ADC agent shall attempt
to control only the animal(s) causing
damage. The agent will use discretion in the
control of young animals. All lions taken by
APHIS/ADC are the property of the State.
A mountain lion harvest report form is
completed for all mountain lion mortalities.
A mountain lion/human interaction form is
completed for all lion/human interactions.
Records of lion mortality and human/ lion
interactions are kept in computer databases
in Reno.
RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS
ERNEST, HOLLY B., WALTER M. BOYCE,
VERNON C. BLEICH, BERNIE MAY, SAN
J. STIVER, AND STEVEN G. TORRES. In
Press. Genetic structure of mountain
lion (Puma concolor) populations in
California. Journal of Conservation
Genetics.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE SEVENTH MOUNTAIN LION WORKSHOP
This paper used 412 samples from
California and 19 samples collected in
western Nevada within 50 km of California.
The work helped define the geographic
ranges of mountain lion populations in
California. Population structure differed
greatly by region - mountain lions in many
California regions have significant barriers
to genetic interchange and therefore are very
different from one population to another.
This paper, plus the work done for the
Nevada DOW report indicate that
populations in Nevada tend not to have as
much obstruction to genetic interchange as
those in most ecological regions of
California, in general. This study shows that
mountain lion management and conservation
efforts should be individualized according to
region and incorporate landscape-level
considerations to protect habitat
connectivity.
A follow up study by Dr. Holly Ernest,
on mountain lion genetic variation and
phylogeography in Nevada is currently
being finalized for future publication.