Cougar News

June 18, 2009/in News, Uncategorized

Sport hunters are depleting lion and cougar populations as managers respond to demands to control predators that threaten livestock and humans

June 18, 2009/in News, Uncategorized

Wildlife officials: Young cougar killed house cat but did not pose public safety risk

June 18, 2009/in News, Uncategorized

The number of animals poisoned, shot or snared by the U.S. Department of Agriculture more than doubled last year, and environmentalists who are critical of the killings renewed their effort Tuesday to limit the agency's funding for such activities.

June 18, 2009/in News, Uncategorized

June 16, 2009/in Uncategorized, News

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – A closer look at diet is the next phase in a study of mountain lions in the Black Hills, research that's gone high-tech to learn more about an animal that few South Dakotans will ever see in the wild.

June 10, 2009/in News, Uncategorized

A former professional hunter for the U.S. government claims in a whistleblower complaint that he was fired in retaliation for reporting co-workers who illegally shot two mountain lions from an airplane in northeast Nevada.

June 3, 2009/in News, Uncategorized

BOULDER – A man shot and killed a mountain lion on Sunday after it attacked his dog, according to a report in Boulder's Daily Camera.

June 3, 2009/in News, Uncategorized

After receiving a dose of tranquilizer from a dart fired by Luke Ellsberry of the Wyoming Game and Fish, a mountain lion slowly relaxes on his perch at the home of Mike and Pam Masterson on North Bernard Street Sunday morning.