Image credit: Bobcat © Henry Colletto, courtesy Rachel Roberts, CDFW

Bobcats are our native felines living around us in the Sierra Nevada and across the country. They are as beautiful as they are elusive — and considering how much we love our domestic cats — why not get to appreciate our native wildcats?

On this show, KVMR and podcast listeners will hear from the experts who have studied and logged more sightings of bobcats than most:

Rachel Roberts, senior environmental scientist and bobcat specialist with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, and

T. Will Richardson, co-founder and executive director of the Tahoe Institute for Natural Sciences.

School teachers are encouraged to use Critter Chat for their students with teaching notes that include vocabulary words like “crepuscular” and “pellage ID.”

Critter Chat is written and produced by Marney Blair and Susan Brandt and edited with KVMR news director Claudio Mendonca. Each episode features one species of the many critters that live in the Sierra Nevada foothills and mountains. Critter Chat was awarded the 2024 Jody Fenimore Excellence in Public Affairs and Community Service Programming by KVMR.

See critterchat.org for our show notes. 
Email: critterchat@kvmr.org
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