In 2023, while studying at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia, Amelie Bluestone, who grew up in Fairfax, got some news from back home: a collared mountain lion had been spotted and ...

Julie Barr knew the mountain lions were out there, in the wooded hills above her Lake County ranch. “But they never came down to the house,” she said. “There’s too much going on.” But the big cats did ...