These mountains are located in the Trans-Pecos part of Texas, which stretches for some 250 miles east to west and extends about 200 miles north to south—about the size of South Carolina.

The wind at the top of the Guadalupe Mountains offers ... The Trans-Pecos plant communities looked completely different,” says Kaylee French, West Texas education and outreach coordinator ...

In the late 1800s, the species roamed the Trans-Pecos mountains in healthy numbers, but by the early 1960s, they'd been eradicated from West Texas due to unregulated hunting, resource competition ...

In Texas, mountain lions are primarily found in the Trans-Pecos, the brushlands of South ... one at a visitor campsite and one outside the Chisos Mountains Lodge.

mountain lions are primarily found in the Trans-Pecos and parts of South Texas, however, isolated lions can move long distances and can show up far from their native ranges," according to the release.