A Missouri deer hunter lost his hunting rifle, $2,000, and a year’s worth of hunting privileges after illegally shooting a mountain lion from his treestand during the 2024-25 hunting season. The big ...

If you are not a hunter, I’m writing to you. And I do it with the utmost respect. Not everyone can, wants to, or should hunt. And that’s totally fine. While the realities of life and death are ...

IRON COUNTY, Mo. — Researchers had high hopes for the four-week-old mountain lion kitten they ear-tagged in 2023. They planned to revisit it a year later for a years-long mountain lion study in ...

Hunting mountain lions and other predators with dogs will remain legal in Arizona, after the Arizona Game and Fish Commission denied efforts by wildlife groups to ban the practice. The decision April ...

YANKTON, S.D. (AP) -- Parts of eastern South Dakota could provide cover and prey for mountain lions, but lacking is at least one element needed for their numbers to increase outside the Black Hills, ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Hunters would have more land and more time to hunt mountain lions with dogs in the Black Hills Fire Protection District under a recommended plan that advanced from ...

Mountain lion hunting has been banned in Oklahoma for nearly 70 years, but select hunters may have the big cats in their crosshairs again if a proposed bill passes — and it seems likely to. Sen. Casey ...

Oklahoma lawmakers are considering a bill that would allow the state’s Department of Wildlife Conservation to issue up to five mountain lion hunting permits through a lottery system. Introduced by ...

Since 1973, Wyoming has managed mountain lions in a way that promotes their existence, using regulations that have allowed the native felines to bounce back from extreme scarcity. Cougars were once ...