Meanwhile, on the Olympic Peninsula…

Pumas Might Be Making Your Drive Home Safer. When the Predators Are Around, Deer Tend to Avoid Roads, Preventing Some Collisions smithsonianmag.com

Where pumas prowl, deer stay off the road. On Washington's Olympic Peninsula, five years of data showed a 67 percent drop in the chance of a deer-vehicle collision in cat territory, and 76 percent fewer wrecks overall, apparently because deer avoid open ground where they can be ambushed.