Billings Gazette
Surprise: G&F officials find third mountain lion cub
By KELSEY DAYTON Casper Star-Tribune
CASPER, Wyo. — Not just one but two mountain lion cubs were caught Wednesday night in the Cache Creek area in Jackson.
Participate in the poll at the website. As of 8:15 am Eastern Time, 71 people had voted. 35% favored cougar hunting. 55% opposed it.
http://www.omaha.com/article/20120203/NEWS01/702039904
Omaha World-Herald
Pawing over idea of cougar hunting
By Joe Duggan
WORLD-HERALD BUREAU
LINCOLN — No one shouted “Kill ‘em all!” Thursday at a legislative hearing on mountain lions.
State Sen. LeRoy Louden of Ellsworth, who has seen a big cat on his cattle ranch in northwest Nebraska, said people who hate cougars use a more subtle catchphrase: “Shoot, shovel and shut up.”
http://www.northplattebulletin.com/index.asp?show=news&action=readStory&storyID=22341&pageID=24
North Platte Bulletin
Mountain Lions should be managed through hunting, senator says
by Christine Scalora
State lawmakers heard testimony that could open the door to a mountain lion hunting season.
Sen. LeRoy Louden of Ellsworth introduced the bill, LB928, with the support of the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, to allow the commission to establish a hunting season to manage the mountain lion population.
http://washingtonexaminer.com/news/2012/02/mo-legislation-would-allow-mountain-lion-killings/2164696
The Examiner – washingtonexaminer.com
Mo. legislation would allow mountain lion killings
By: Associated Press
A state senator has introduced legislation clarifying that anyone in Missouri may kill a mountain lion.
Identifying cougar tracks
Jan 31st, 2012 by admin
Go to the website for a link to a video
http://www.semissourian.com/blogs/davis/entry/46087/?response=no
Southeastern Missourian
Identifying Mountain lion tracks
Finding tracks on your property can be exciting, especially if they’re large and unfamiliar. Determining the culprit who left those tracks behind is easier if you know what to look for.
One cougar kitten caught in Jackson Hole, Wyoming
Jan 31st, 2012 by admin
http://www.jhnewsandguide.com/article.php?art_id=8192
jhnewsandguide.com
1 Cougar Kitten Caught
By Cory Hatch, Jackson Hole Daily
Wyoming Game and Fish personnel Sunday captured one of two cougar kittens that have eluded wildlife managers in the Cache Creek drainage since their mother’s capture last week.
Nebraska officials release trapped cougar
Jan 31st, 2012 by admin
Rapid City Journal
Nebraska officials release mountain lion
Journal staff
Nebraska Game and Parks Commission officials have released a mountain lion that was accidentally caught in a trap in Dawes County.
Lawmaker says dead cougars wrongly confiscated in South Dakota
Jan 30th, 2012 by admin
If this legislation passes, there will truly be an open season on cougars in South Dakota outside the Black Hills. The number of cougars in the Black Hills is in the process of being reduced by up to 110 by legally sanctioned hunting. The quota was met in Wyoming by end of last year. As of Saturday, January 28th, 33 had been killed in the South Dakota portion of the Hills. Hunters have up to March 31st to reach the quota of 70. With that many cougars removed, will young dispersers have any need to leave the Black Hills, or will they stay in the Hills and fill the territories and home ranges vacated by those that were “harvested?” If they don’t leave, will the Midwest and East ever be recolonized naturally?
Rapid City Journal
West River lawmaker says lions wrongly confiscated
Kevin Woster Journal staff |
Two West River men stand to regain mountain lions carcasses that were confiscated by the South Dakota Game, Fish & Parks Department if legislation by state Rep. Betty Olson becomes law.
Minnesota man charged with shooting cougar – 1-27-12
Jan 30th, 2012 by admin
http://www.news8000.com/news/Minnesota-man-charged-with-shooting-cougar/-/326/8557344/-/vie0kbz/-/
News8000.com – wkbt – La Crosse
Minnesota man charged with shooting cougar
P(Minnesota DNR Press Release)
Charges have been filed today by the Jackson County attorney’s office against a Jackson County man in southwestern Minnesota for allegedly shooting a cougar on Nov. 27, 2011, according to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR).