Dr. Keith Geluso, a biology professor at the University of Nebraska at Kearney, had a hypothesis: the Gila River and its floodplain—with its natural flow regime—likely support a vast number of mammals. But there wasn’t much research. That’s why he set up a camera at our Gila River Preserve near Silver City. Here is a sampling of what he discovered.
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TRAIL CAMERA AT GILA RIVER PRESERVE
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![Mountain Lion Did you know that a cougar's tail makes up a third of this large cat’s body length! © Keith Geluso/The Nature Conservancy](https://natureconservancy-h.assetsadobe.com/is/image/content/dam/tnc/nature/en/photos/m/t/mtn_lion_at_agnew_1640x1025.jpg?crop=0%2C0%2C1640%2C1025&wid=1640&hei=1025&scl=1.0)