
ERIC KAYNE / THE SEATTLE TIMES
State's carnivore specialist helped people, cougars coexist
State carnivore specialist Rocky Spencer, who died Saturday, holds up a cougar kitten he and dog Mishka tracked a few miles from Snoqualmie on Aug. 24. Cougars are in our midst more than people realize, he said, but seeing a cougar kitten in the wild is rare.