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Open season on cougars in the Dakotas
Posted by: Josephine Marcotty
Not everyone thinks the cougars will make it back east. Even though young males from breeding colonies in the Dakotas and Nebraska are increasingly heading into the Midwest, researchers and conservationists at the Cougar Rewilding Foundation make a compelling case that hunters may stop it before it gets going.