A SPECIAL REPORT: WILDLIFE
PREDATORS AS PREY: What’s the next animal that could vanish in Orange County? Biologist Paul Beier fears that mountain lions may be extinct here within 20 years because of development. . . . If the big cats disappear, the troubled ecosystem could be thrown even more out of whack, since they have topped the food chain in the county ever since man wiped out bears and wolves decades ago.
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