How many mountain lions is too many?

Isaw it by accident.I was sitting in the kitchen at my family’s ranch in the high foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains -- not far from Yosemite National Park. I got up to refill my water glass and looked out the window behind the kitchen sink. About a hundred yards away -- across an upwardsloping field of yellowed grass -- stood a rectangular chicken house.My older brother and his wife, who…