Bobcat

Cascades Bobcat in
North Bend, Washington

The Bobcat is a small, adaptable feline. Its' range is from Southern Canada to Southern Mexico. They are most common during summer frost in the southeast (from Texas and Oklahoma in the west to Florida, north to North Carolina, and through Tennessee to Oklahoma.) I have seen them in suburban Atlanta.

4 subspecies occur in California: The Valley, Desert, Mojave, and the Cascades Bobcats. The Valley Bobcat occurs the whole California west of the Sierra Nevada. The Desert and Mojave have the same basic range, but the Desert Bobcat extends into the south White Mountains and Sierra Nevada (mostly Inyo County).

Here are some articles about Bobcats in California:

Desert Bobcat Attack: Death Valley