Can you coexist with mountain lions?

MENDOCINO CO., 11/29/24 — When graduate student Christi Nash joined forces with the nonprofit advocacy group Mountain Lion Foundation to conduct a survey of attitudes towards coexistence with the big cats, she predicted that youth and young adults with higher education levels would skew towards positive attitudes. What she found was that there is no correlation between age and education. Most respondents were over age 40 and most had at least some college education. (A well-known problem with surveys on any topic is that older, educated people are more likely to fill out surveys.)

She received 394 responses. A vast majority, 245 respondents or 62.2%, strongly agreed that coexistence is desirable, while 23.4% somewhat agreed.