Cougar Articles

Your chances of adding a trophy-sized mountain lion to your den have never been better, so don’t procrastinate.

As mountain lion populations in the western United States continue to grow, it’s only a matter of time before some wander east in search of new ground and a mate.

Scientists are telling New Jersey officials that cougars could save the state millions in relation to the deer population.

Environmentalists in New Mexico are suing several parties, including the New Mexico Game Commission, claiming trapping cougars is endangering other animals.

An Idaho hunter shot a mountain lion with an extra set of fangs growing from its skull.

An 8-year-old Yorkshire Terrier was carried away from its owner's porch in Oregon by an animal believed to be a young cougar.

In April, a commission increased the cougar harvest rate in 14 areas of the state as a way to ease tensions in communities over the state's growing wolf population. Gray wolves are endangered in Washington and cannot be hunted.

More cougars are prowling around Oregon, prompting state officials to raise its kill quota for the animals for the first time since 2006.

Utah wildlife managers are allowing more hunters to pursue cougars despite pleas from conservationists and animal lovers.

The New Mexico Game Commission is expected to vote on a proposal that would ease limits on hunting and trapping bears and cougars around the state.

Police in the Omaha suburb of La Vista say a report of a mountain lion in a residential area appears to be credible, and they are investigating.

Cougars spotted in the Eastern U.S. are believed to be migrating western mountain lions, Florida panthers or captive animals that were released.

New Mexico Department of Game and Fish officers have killed a cougar in a Raton neighborhood after it reportedly attacked a puppy on a woman's front porch.

A cougar killed a dairy cow in Whatcom County in a rare instance of a cougar attack on livestock.

A bill that would allow the unlicensed hunting of cougars and other mountain cats in New Mexico cleared a hurdle in the state Legislature.

Officials say a deer carcass found near the entrance to Fort Stevens State Park was confirmed to be a cougar kill.

As hunting rights and methods are being taken away from sportsmen in mountain lion country, problem cougars are becoming a common occurrence.

Oregon wildlife officials have removed a cougar trap from a Eugene park even though trail cameras have shown a third cougar in the area. Two other cougars were earlier trapped and killed after recent livestock kills.