Study shows light pollution attracts deer to urban areas, and cougars follow

It might come as no surprise to people living in the hills of Highland and Bountiful that deer like munching on neighborhood gardens and flowerbeds. New research shows that urban light also appears to be attracting those herds, and that cougars follow behind to hunt them.The study analyzed artificial nighttime light detected by the NASA-NOAA Suomi satellite and paired it with GPS data from 117 mountain lions and 486 mule deer in Utah, Arizona, Nevada and California, along with 1,562 sites where