Link to cougar attacks fron before <1970-2004
Listed by:
Name, age, gender
Date
Location, comments
Before 1970
Arthur Dangle, 7, male
June 19, 1890
Killed by two cougars while playing near his home in Quartz Valley, Siskiyou County, California
Child, 2, male
January 31, 1909
Killed by mountain lion near Balboa, California. The boy was attacked while in a tent.[4]
Elena Salzar, 5, female
June 1953
Attacked, dragged off, and eaten in Tampico, Mexico[5]
1970-1999
Lawrence Wells, 12, male
January 1971
Attacked and killed in Lytton, British Columbia by male cougar while playing with his sisters
Kenneth Clark Nolan, 8, male
January 20, 1974
Killed by a 3 year old female cougar in Arroyo Seco, New Mexico
Thomas Harris, 26, male
July 1976
Killed by a two year old male cougar near Gold River on British Columbia's Vancouver Island. He was dragged over 800 yards in the snow.
Matilda Mae Samuel, 7, female
July 1976
Killed by cougar near Gold River, British Columbia Killed while walking on a road.
Jeremy Williams, 7, male
May 1992
Attacked and killed in Kyuquot, British Columbia by a young female cougar while playing in the school yard.
Barbara Barsalou Schoener, 40, female
April 23, 1994
Long distance runner and Placerville resident was attacked and killed while jogging on the American River Canyon Trail in California's Auburn State Recreation Area
Iris M. Kenna, 56, female
December 10, 1994
Killed while hiking alone near Cuyamaca Peak in California's Cuyamaca Rancho State Park
Cindy Parolin, 36, female
August 19, 1996
Mother killed while defending her 6 year old son on a horse back riding trip in British Columbia
Mark Miedema, 10, male
July 17, 1997
Killed by an adult female cougar in Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park while hiking when he got ahead of his family[12]
2000s
Frances Frost, 30, female
January 2, 2001
This Canmore, Alberta resident was killed by a cougar while skiing on Cascade Fire Road just north of Banff National Park in Alberta
Mark Jeffrey Reynolds, 35, male
January 8, 2004
Attacked and killed while mountain biking at Whiting Ranch Wilderness Park in southern Orange County, California[9][14]
Robert Nawojski, 55, male
June 24, 2008
Searchers found his body on this date near his mobile home in Pinos Altos, New Mexico. Investigators concluded that he had been attacked and killed by a cougar several days earlier.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_cougar_attacks_in_North_America
These were the ones reported. Could there be more that were misreported as lost hikers,never found?
It has become an almost common acurrance to read about a jogger or cyclist being attacked on the wilderness trails in California. Luckly it is also common for someone to come to their aid.
Sorry for the long post, I question the wisdom of protecting the cougars at the exspence of the people.