Tracking the snow cat: hot on the trail of the lynx—the northern woods' most secretive predator - Cover Story

Sierra, March-April, 2003 by Kim Todd

In addition to areas with established populations, vacant lynx habitat needs protection. This January, the Sierra Club and other environmental groups won a court battle, with the judge calling on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to designate critical habitat for the lynx--something that should have been done years ago--and to reconsider the lynx's status in the Northeast, Great Lakes, and southern Rockies.

* ON THE WEB For more information and ways to take action on the Meadows roadless areas and the Cabinet-Yaak ecosystem, go to the Sierra Club Lewis and Clark site at www.sierraclub.org/lewisandclark. For more information about Maine's North Woods, go to www.maine.sierraclub.org.

KIM TODD is an environmental writer and author of Tinkering With Eden, a Natural History of Exotics in America.