It took us to a long, flat mountain sloping toward the ranch. It was 3 o’clock when we unsaddled J.T. and tried to feed the dogs, but they collapsed in the hay under the shed, too tired to eat. Read ...

Permits to hunt mountain lions cost $50 for residents and $388 for non-residents. Bobcats can be trapped and hunted with a $33 furbearer license or a $10 permit in addition to a small game license.

California, he adds, banned cougar hunting; it now boasts the lowest rate of human-lion interactions per capita in the country. “Mountain lions are self-regulating,” Wielgus says. “The best thing you ...

The animal-rights group Cats Aren’t Trophies says it has collected enough voter signatures to put a mountain lion and bobcat hunting ban on the Colorado ballot this November. The organization ...

In the 2022-2023 hunting season — the most recent for which CPW data is publicly available — 2,599 people bought mountain lion hunting licenses and hunters killed 502 lions, making for a 19% ...

“I wish Gov. Cox understood that killing more mountain lions will lead to more cougar problems, not less,” said R. Brent Lyles, executive director of the Mountain Lion Foundation.

Emotions ran high at a meeting where state wildlife officials presented the basics of a proposed plan that could allow more predator hunting near Carbondale, Glenwood Springs and Eagle. “We’re seeing ...

Last year, 2,599 of these hunters killed 502 mountain lions in the state; if they hadn’t, a much larger number of deer and elk would have undoubtedly been killed by the big cats.