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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.

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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.”

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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.

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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.

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Identifying cougar tracks

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.

 

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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.

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http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/nebraska-officials-release-mountain-lion/article_ab754980-4b91-11e1-adeb-001871e3ce6c.html

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.

 

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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?

 

http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/west-river-lawmaker-says-lions-wrongly-confiscated/article_315f987c-4960-11e1-a0d3-001871e3ce6c.html

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.

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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).

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