![This mountain lion was spotted at 3:23 a.m. on Terri Lacasse’s nightvision camera near her Lake of the Woods home on Woods Drive, just after Robin Parks (inset) came from San Diego to tell (below) residents and law enforcement how to stay safe, keep local pets alive and avoid the death of a lion. [photo by Terri Lacasse]](https://mountainenterprise.com/wp-content/uploads/lionfrontpg-324x194.jpg)
This mountain lion was spotted at 3:23 a.m. on Terri Lacasse’s nightvision camera near her Lake of the Woods home on Woods Drive, just after Robin Parks (inset) came from San Diego to tell (below) residents and law enforcement how to stay safe, keep local pets alive and avoid the death of a lion. [photo by Terri Lacasse]
By The Mountain Enterprise staff
“[I] think we captured a picture of a mountain lion in our backyard last night,” Terri Lacasse of Lake of the Woods wrote April 12.
The time stamp by the night vision camera is 3:23 a.m. The image (above) is definitely a lion, stalking through brush, moving west from Woods Drive in Lake of the Woods. Lacasse sent the photo the morning after The Mountain Enterprise and the Frazier Park Library hosted a timely visit from a field representative for… (please get your copy of the Mountain Enterprise on newsstands now for the full story, or subscribe and get access to the eEdition online to view full stories and photographs)
On Friday, May 1 at 7 p.m. Parks and colleague Johanna Turner—a “trail camera specialist with dynamite footage of lions” living in this region of California—will give a special Town Hall at the Pine Mountain Clubhouse, a free event open to all Mountain Community residents. Dinner and snacks are available at the Bistro on the Greens restaurant. The event is coordinated by A.J. and Frances Durocher with The Mountain Enterprise, hosted by Pine Mountain Club.
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This mountain lion was spotted at 3:23 a.m. on Terri Lacasse’s nightvision camera near her Lake of the Woods home on Woods Drive, just after Robin Parks (inset) came from San Diego to tell (below) residents and law enforcement how to stay safe, keep local pets alive and avoid the death of a lion.
Sheriff’s deputies and CHP officers attended with an overflow crowd.
Left: Two different non-aggressive behaviors in which the lion bares its teeth; (left) the lion is yawning and (right) the lion activates olfactory senses located near the back of the throat.
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This is part of the April 17, 2015 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.
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