That's all I want to see is proof.If we had a huge population,that certainly wouldn't be hard to find.Again.I'm not discounting the possibility about an escapedor released pet.That hardly constitutes a huge population in my opinion.Doing research on this subject is interesting and noble on your part.I think it would be a great discovery to be part of finding a breeding population.Callingwhat we have or insinuatingthat we have a huge population is irresponsible.I hear about mountain lion sightings on a regular basis around hear.Two years agoour local WCO even investigated a case of a teenager claiming one knocked him off his bike just down the road from my house.It turned out to be pure nonsense but people still panicked in the meantime.I was at a meeting with our local WCO last thurday night.We had some good laughs talking about themountain lion encounters people keep having around here.It seems that we have have them right in the city limits and in people's yards all the time.Funny thing is,everytime someone snaps a picture it turns out to be a house cat or bobcat.Every single time the person taking the opicture thinks it's ground breaking evidence that mountain lions exist.I have close personal friends that swear they saw them.I don't doubt their sincerity but Ibelieve they saw something else.The fact is,if we had more than the occassional released pet running around,we'd have solid evidence of their presence.