Mountain Lion

New research shows that only 7 percent of mountain lions in the Jackson Hole area are surviving into adulthood.

An Oregon wildlife biologist says a cougar was responsible for killing two goats and some chickens over three consecutive nights at a home near an 80-acre park in south Eugene.

Authorities say a former state senator is facing a misdemeanor charge after illegally killing a mountain lion that was caught in a bobcat trap.

Wildlife officials have killed a mountain lion that had taken up residence in a Helena neighborhood and killed three housecats.

A man who pleaded guilty to killing a cougar in Michigan's Upper Peninsula in December said he was defending his father, but state wildlife officials say the animal posed no threat and was poached, its heart cooked and some of it eaten by the men.

Southern California authorities are searching for a mountain lion that killed a family pet in the backyard of a foothills home.

A report says the New Mexico Game Commission chair who recently resigned amid allegations that he was an accessory to an unlawful killing of a cougar set up the hunt.

A Winchester resident reported seeing a mountain lion in town earlier this week, an animal that's officially extinct in the area.

Some Spearfish residents say they've seen wolves in the area, but police and wildlife officials are skeptical.

An 11-year-old girl shot a cougar that was following her 14-year-old brother to their home in north central Washington, the state Fish and Wildlife Department said.

The state Department of Fish and Wildlife has issued five special permits in the Methow Valley allowing hunters to use dogs to track and kill cougars in response to numerous problems this winter.

Hunters who want to kill mountain lions for sport in Nebraska could soon be out of luck, due to a bill penned by a longtime state senator who has championed animal welfare issues.

A national mountain lion protection organization is outraged that South Dakota hunters shot three young lions last week and had their kills deemed legal by the state.

Some people call the activity bowhunting for cottontail rabbits. Mark Zornes calls it losing arrows in the sage brush.

California Dept. of Fish and Wildlife Lt. Patrick Foy says samples gathered from 48-year-old Raymond Navarro and his Riverside County campsite have not been good enough to get conclusive results.

State wildlife officials say a ninth bighorn sheep has died in the Catalina Mountains north of Tucson where 31 bighorns were released late last year.

Experts will examine the torn clothing of a homeless man to determine whether a mountain lion mauled him at his California campsite.