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The healthy adult male cougar was the third confirmed dead in the state during the past 50 years.

The sighting in Clark County is one of two dozen confirmed in the state since 2010.

Check out this amazing drone video of a mountain lion stalking a few whitetails in a food plot (a couple acres in size) planted with brassicas and corn.

Encounters like this one are exceptionally rare. It represents a potentially risky worst-case scenario where a lion refuses to back down. Generally, encounters like this involve a mother with young or a single lion protecting a cached kill.

The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation (ODWC) has confirmed reports of two separate mountain lions observed with kittens in different regions of the state.

After a paid signature campaign placed an initiative on the ballot that would ban mountain lion and bobcat hunting, voters rejected it in favor of maintaining hunters as the state’s crucial management tool.

Here’s what you need to know before tackling one of North America’s most elusive apex predators.

State wildlife officials said the mountain lion had lost its fear of humans and was becoming bolder with its hunting.

There was no evidence that the mountain lion died of a bullet wound and there were no injuries consistent with being hit by a car.

Legislative changes over hunting and trapping the big cats year-round spurred two organizations to file a lawsuit.

No large North American mammal is more elusive than the mountain lion.

Montana wildlife officials euthanized a mountain lion wandering in a neighborhood and showing abnormal behavior.

A trail cam in the mountains of Utah captures the sights — and hair-raising sounds — of a mountain lion attacking an elk calf.

The country’s worst outbreak of avian flu in years is showing up in mammals, including a black bears and mountain lion in Colorado.

Iowa coyote hunters kill an adult female mountain lion known to state wildlife officials.

If mountain lions are the ghosts of the West, Mike Davis is indeed a real-life ghostbuster.

A 9-year-old girl in Washington state survives a mountain lion attack that landed her in intensive care.

If you’re looking for a true bucket-list adventure, call a houndsman and give bowhunting mountain lions a go.

Lest folks begin to think that everything involving the anti-hunters is doom and gloom, there are points of light from time to time.

Mountain lions tracked by researchers over nine years in Yellowstone National Park showed evidence of infection by the bacteria Yersinia pestis, which was the cause of the bubonic plague in the mid-1300s.

Arizona officials are investigating the connection between a man charged for theft of a vehicle belonging to a missing Oklahoma man and an unidentifed body found scavenged by three mountain lions.

A North Dakota pheasant hunter shot and killed a mountain lion that charged him from thick grass.

Some of this new-found predator management initiative may be too little to late but it’s up to us predator hunters to keep supporting by voice and dollars any predator program that exhibits common sense management.

There are plenty of reasons to carry a pistol — when legal — while on a bowhunt, especially when you are in apex predator country.

What happened after voters passed hunting restrictions in these states?

A rare rabbit disease that killed four domestic rabbits has put officials in Ohio on alert for any cases that could spread into the population of wild rabbits.

Nebraska wildlife officials approved a mountain lion hunting season in 2020 that is similar to the previous season, with a few changes.

A 4-year-old boy was attacked by a mountain lion in southern California, but survived after his father scared away the cat known to people in the area.

The Colorado trail runner who choked a mountain lion to death on Monday hasn’t yet been identified, but new information has been released about the fate of the lion.