Mountain lions play a critical role in maintaining a healthy natural ecosystem in every landscape they inhabit, but their continued presence in those landscapes is often tenuous.

Our Living with Lions webinar series highlights the challenges mountain lions face in existing in a human-dominated world, as well as the steps that we can take to preserve their presence here.

Interested in hearing the latest developments in mountain lion research? Want to be a more effective advocate for wildlife? These webinars are for you!

Registration is open now for these webinars:

Image of sheep in mobile electric fence courtesy of Gowan Batist

A Day in the Life of Two Coexistence Ranchers

Wednesday, November 20 at 12pm PT

What does it mean to raise livestock with coexistence as a value? It’s one thing to recreate in places where mountain lions, coyotes, and bears live. It’s another to make ranching your livelihood in wild places.

Ranchers around the world have peacefully and productively coexisted with wild cats, coyotes, bears and other apex carnivores for millennia. Indeed, modern deterrent devices used in the U.S. today have origins in the most ancient coexistence tools. But for most of the ranchers who raise cattle, sheep, and goats on 600+ million acres across the US, lethal removal is the preferred method for dealing with carnivores that share the land, even though lethal removal can end up causing an increase in conflict.

Learn about a day in the life of two successful, professional ranchers who peacefully raise livestock in lion and coyote country. Why did they choose to put coexistence at the center of their ranching operations? What are the investments needed to implement non-lethal deterrent programs at scale? What are key differences between coexisting with mountain lions and with coyotes, and is it possible to do both?

Join us for a much-needed conversation with two coexistence ranchers about their work in California and neighboring states. The conversation will be moderated by Brent Lyles, Executive Director for the Mountain Lion Foundation.

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Image courtesy of Brent Lyles

Onward in 2025, for the Lions!

Wednesday, December 18 at 12pm PT via Zoom

The nature of our mission to save America’s lion often means that for every three steps forward, we stumble backwards a few paces. In 2024, we witnessed incredible milestones for cougar protections, but we also saw devastating set-backs. What is the state of mountain lion protection in 2024? What are our causes for concern and what are our reasons to hope in 2025?

Join Executive Director, R. Brent Lyles, as he reflects on the work of the Mountain Lion Foundation this year and shares his vision for our work going forward to ensure that mountain lions survive and thrive in the wild.

The Speaker

R. Brent Lyles is Executive Director of the Mountain Lion Foundation. Brent began his professional journey teaching middle-school science in rural North Carolina. Since that time, Brent’s career has focused on science education, compassionate and inclusive leadership, and environmental stewardship.

He holds master’s degrees in biological anthropology and not-for-profit management. Before joining the team at the Mountain Lion Foundation in 2022, Brent served as executive director at several not-for-profit organizations in Austin, Texas, and the San Juan Islands, Washington. Other experiences include playing in mediocre rock bands, management consulting, writing national science textbooks, and, as a young person, dreaming about someday seeing a mountain lion in the wild.

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