Of the council’s 556 Cub Scout packs, 325 have Lion dens. “That’s what we were looking at this first full year – about half the packs,” York said. “It was an opt-in situation for packs.

An orphaned mountain lion cub was rescued Monday in El Dorado County with assistance from the Oakland Zoo. The male cub, which has been named “Briar,” is one of the zoo’s youngest mountain ...