Entries Tagged mountain lions

After observing the animal for about 30 minutes, a game warden used a bean bag gun to try to haze the lion out of the residential area and back into nearby open space. But the big cat did not move when struck.

Mountain lions, also known as pumas, panthers, catamounts and cougars, were nearly wiped out in the U.S. in the early 1900s as hunting and a shortage of prey drastically reduced their numbers. But a century later, they are starting to recolonize in the Midwest.

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.

The Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Department is beginning to develop a new plan for managing mountain lions in the state. The current plan is about 20 years old, and officials hope to have a new plan ready by the end of this year.

Wildlife officials in South Dakota report that 26 mountain lions have been killed so far during the hunting season in the Black Hills Fire Protection District.

A House panel declined to advance a bill that would have made it illegal in many instances to kill a mountain lion in Iowa.

Arizona wildlife officials say the number of mountain lion deaths in southern Arizona has made its largest decline in a single year.

Authorities say he and his assistants would locate cats prior to a client's arrival and then “shorten up” the hunt by caging the animals, then releasing them when the client was present.

California wildlife officials confirmed that a mountain lion they shot and killed is the same one that attacked a 6-year-old boy on a hiking trail.

A western Colorado outfitter pleaded guilty to a federal wildlife charge after he was accused of capturing and maiming mountain lions and bobcats to make hunting easier for clients.

Officers in South Carolina spent hours searching for a mountain lion on the loose from a pet store, but police now say the threat was based on a false report.

The upcoming South Dakota mountain lion hunting and bobcat hunting and trapping seasons will operate the same as they did last year.

A mountain lion that was found in a tree at a Spearfish home was tranquilized and later released a few miles away in a rural area.