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Reliable estimates of status and population trend are critical for conservation of large terrestrial carnivores, but are usually lacking due to the high costs of sampling across large geographic areas. For detecting population trends of mountain lion Felis concolor californica, we evaluated counts of track sets on 48 randomly chosen quadrats in California. Each quadrat contained 33 8 km of transect...