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Mountain lions, or cougars, are dedicated mothers, and are either pregnant or raising dependent cubs for the majority of their lives.
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From the Pleistocene Age, to the Modern Age, the mountain lion, or cougar, has been a feature of wilderness in the Americas.
The cougar's primary characteristics are tawny brown hide and a long tail.
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Saturday, August 22nd, 2009
Grand Opening -Center for Southwest Studies' new exhibit - Mountain Lion!
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Fort Lewis College - Durango, Colorado
The exhibit will kick off with a major public opening on Saturday, August 22. For directions to this event at the Center of Southwest Studies, click here. The exhibition will officially open at 10:00 AM. The grand event of the day will take place at 1:00 PM, with a host of family and children’s events such as the "Cougar Olympics." The "Cougar Olympics" are designed to teach children about mountain lions through fun interactive activities. Other hands-on activities include science and art stations. These events are being organized by the Colorado Division of Wildlife, San Juan Mountains Association and Durango Nature Studies. Zia Taqueria will provide food for purchase.
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Comments to WA RE: Pilot Cougar Program AmendmentsThe Cougar Fund | 2010-03-12
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Cougar spotted in StillwateeSt. Croix Valley Local News MN | 2010-07-02 Six months after a cougar was last spotted in Stillwater, police say another wildcat may be roaming the area. |
Mountain lion believed sighted near GeorgetownLedger Independent - Ohio | 2010-05-28 The Brown County Sheriff's Office has received two reports in two days of a mountain lion sighting near Georgetown, Ohio. |
Cougar sighting in Boise neighborhoodKBOI2 - Idaho | 2010-05-04 A young mountain lion was spotted in a Boise neighborhood over the weekend. |
Close Encounters Of A Lion Kind: Meeting Cougars, Foxes, Bears ... and Bear PoopMarc Bekoff -Psychology Today | 2010-04-05 Because my living space encroaches on the terrain of mountain lions and many other carnivores-- including coyotes, red foxes, and black bears--the likelihood of meeting one of these beasts is fairly high. |
Cat trackers sniff out the truthDenver Post | 2010-04-01 For Colorado mountain lion AM06, every day is like "The Truman Show" for felines — the authorities are always watching. A satellite signal snaps his exact location every three hours as he wanders his 230-square-mile territory from Nederland to Lyons. |
GF&P: Cougars now kill as many Black Hills deer as huntersRapid City Journal | 2010-03-24 Some hunters don’t like the increased competition from lions, said Mike Kintigh, GF&P regional supervisor in Rapid City. |
LETTER: GF&P causing problems, not fixing themRapid City Journal | 2010-03-11 Once again the Guns, Fees & Politics (GF&P) Commission has proclaimed another successful mountain lion hunting season. Not hard to do when you have no clue what you are doing other than economically exploiting a natural resource! |
Mountain lions spotted near U of U campusFox 13 Utah | 2010-03-11 Employees and students working near Research Park at the University of Utah are being told to be extra cautious. Property managers at the university say three mountain lions have been spotted wandering unusually close to the Williams building and inside the parking garage. |
GF&P to hold statewide public meetings on mountain lionsArgus Leader | 2010-03-11 State Game, Fish & Parks Department officials will be on the road over the next few weeks visiting with South Dakota citizens about mountain lions. We are in the process of updating South Dakota's mountain lion management plan,” said Tony Leif, GF&P Wildlife Division director. “An important early step in that process is to gather public input.” |
14 cats killed so far in mountain lion hunting seasonArgus Leader | 2010-01-12 The 2010 mountain lion season started Jan. 1 and a total of 14 cats have been harvested as of today - five males and nine females. |
Dead mountain lion found on Highway 17 near Los GatosMercury News - Megha Satyanarayana | 2010-01-12 A mountain lion was found dead this morning on Hwy 17 south of Cat's Restaurant outside of Los Gatos. |
Refuge to take part in mountain lion studyEl Defensor Chieftain | 2010-01-11 Beginning Monday, Jan. 11, the portion of Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge that lies east of the Rio Grande will be closed to the public in order to initiate a mountain lion study. |
Mountain lion kills Summit County family's dogDeseret News - Utah | 2009-12-29 A Summit County man shot and killed a mountain lion at his home but not before the animal killed the family's Yorkshire Terrier. |
Whoops: Mountain Lion Shot Near Marengo Male, Not FemaleKCRG-tv | 2009-12-17 Turns out the mountain lion shot by a Cedar Rapids hunter north of Marengo Monday wasn’t a female after all. |
Iowa Deer Hunters Kill Mountain LionFairfield Voice -Will Merydith | 2009-12-16 The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is reporting that a deer hunter shot and killed a male mountain lion near Marengo, Iowa. Raymond Goebel of Cedar Rapids was hunting with a group just outside of Marengo when he spotted a Mountain Lion up in a tree. Goebel shot and killed the cat, which weighed in around 125 pounds. |
Game Warden found guilty of hunting violationBuffalo Bulletin - Grant Smith | 2009-12-10 In a trial that attempted to put hard definitions on the abstract concepts of fair chase and proper sportsmanship while hunting, Lusk resident and former Kaycee Wyoming Game and Fish Department Game Warden Brady Vandeburg was found guilty in Johnson County Circuit Court on one charge of failing to immediately take or release a treed mountain lion. |
Mountain Lion attack reports unfoundedTorrington Telegram, Carson LeMahieu -WY | 2009-12-10 Recent rumors circulating around Torrington of a mountain lion attack on three horses in the area are simply not true, local game officials say. |
Details on Mountain Lion Shot in BismarckKXMBTV.com - Bismarck | 2009-12-04 A mountain lion is taken down in town... bringing up a (slew) of different questions. |
G&FP kills lion captured near Storybook IslandEmilie Rusch - Rapid City Journal | 2009-11-20 A 2-year-old mountain lion was found in a city neighborhood near Storybook Island on Thursday morning. |
Mountain lion kills 2 alpacas Ranch manager declines offer to kill predatorTony Evans - Idaho Mountain Express | 2009-10-30 Two baby alpacas were taken from an outdoor pen and killed by a mountain lion Wednesday night at a ranch north of Hailey. |
Man recounts confrontation with mountain lionAP - Utah | 2009-10-22 A Syracuse man out for the season opener of the Utah deer hunt had a fearful encounter with a female mountain lion. |
New collars provide more info on mountain lions in Black HillsSioux City Journal | 2009-10-19 South Dakota wildlife officials say new satellite collars on mountain lions are giving them a better understanding of the animals in the Black Hills. The collars are an upgrade from radio collars. Fifteen lions have been equipped with them so far. |
Zoo unveils carnivore exhibitKevin Elliott - Topeka Capital Journal | 2009-10-12 A pair of mountain lions emerging from their den Friday evening were the highlight of the party as dusk settled over the Topeka Zoo's Kansas Carnivore Bash |
Mountain lion kills deer on Redwood AvenueThe Willits News staff - CA | 2009-09-28 A woman in the 500 block of Redwood Avenue on the west side of Willits, told Willits police she saw a mountain lion kill a deer near her home early Thursday morning. |
Controversial cougar study comes to endMark Freeman - Mail Tribune OR | 2009-09-25 State wildlife biologists say they will abandon a three-year-old study that failed to show that killing cougars in Jackson County curbs livestock losses and human-safety complaints involving large predators. |
Shorter cougar-hunting season to be restudiedTony Davis - Arizona Daily Star | 2009-09-14 The emotional, divisive conflict over the length of the mountain-lion-hunting season is clearly not over, two years after a unanimous Arizona Game and Fish Commission vote to cut it from year-round to nine months. |
Mountain lion kills dog in MoorparkAnna Bakalis - Ventura County Star | 2009-09-04 A mountain lion attacked and killed a dog in a Moorpark neighborhood early Thursday morning, authorities said. |
Panther color confounds expertAndrea Stetson - News-Press Fort Myers, FL | 2009-08-28 Mark Lotz has been working with Florida panthers for 15 years, but he's never seen anything like the baby panthers he recently found in Collier County. |
Should Arizona sell sheep tags to lions?Emily | 2009-08-27 That's right, the Kofa offers a "once in a lifetime sheep hunt" according to AGFD who has separated the Kofa into 3 Game Management Units, and sells tags for each one. The hunter success rate has averaged 89% over the last 20 years. So, just to recap, the message AGFD is sending is: A) You have the right to kill protected sheep as long as you pay a fee to the state, and 2) It's okay for humans to kill sheep for fun, but not for lions to kill sheep for subsistence. |
Officers search for cougar taken from crash sceneKXLY -Post Falls, Idaho | 2009-08-27 An elusive cougar spotted in Post Falls over the past few months may be dead. On Sunday, a mountain lion was hit by a driver on I-90 and now fish and game believe another driver stopped and illegally took the animal. |
Lion attack: Landscape crew witness cougar kill deerTerry Knight-- Record-Bee staff | 2009-08-26 A large male mountain lion killed an adult buck deer in the backyard of a Clear Lake Riviera residence on Tuesday morning. The killing took place within a few feet of a landscaping crew that was working in the area. |
Mountain lion spotted in Calleguas Creek bedCamarillo Acorn - California | 2009-08-21 A woman reported seeing a mountain lion the morning of Aug. 13 in the Calleguas Creek wash area between Upland and Creekside roads. Camarillo police officers checked the area but did not find the animal. Authorities with the Department of Fish and Game and Ventura County Animal Control were notified. |
Apply soon for western districts mountain lion tagGreat Falls Tribune - Montana | 2009-08-21 Those wanting to hunt mountain lions in western Montana's Regions 1 and 2 this fall and winter must apply by Aug. 31. |
Woman says she encountered mountain lion on Deer Valley trailPatrick Parkinson - Park Record - Park City, UT | 2009-08-20 Stefanie Wilson said she almost came face to face with the animal on the trail connecting Queen Esther Drive with Snowtop. A Park City woman said she was not injured when she nearly confronted a mountain lion Aug. 5 in Deer Valley. |
Cougar Hound Killed In HuntDavid Wiwchar Alberni Portal | 2009-08-19 One specialized cougar hound is dead and another two seriously injured after a weekend attack near Rainy Bay. |
Car, Cougar Collide Near QuilceneKirotv.com - Washington | 2009-08-18 A woman was driving outside Quilcene when a cougar came out of the woods and collided with her car. |
Mountain lion captured in eastern part of Denver metro arThe Denver Post | 2009-08-17 A mountain lion on the far east edge of the metro region was tranquilized in a mobile home park shed this morning. |
Meet the Newest Mountain Lion of the Santa Monica MountainsZach Behrens | 2009-08-17 Well, she may not be the newest or youngest in our local mountains, but she is the most recent cougar to be trapped, tagged and released by the National Park Service, who has been conducting a study with them over the past seven years. |
Leavenworth trail closed after cougar encounterTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS | 2009-08-07 LEAVENWORTH, Wash. -- A popular trail two miles north of Leavenworth has been closed until a cougar that chased a mountain biker is removed. |
Saving the PumaMickey Z. - Pacific Free Press | 2009-08-12 The puma is also called cougar, mountain lion, panther, and sadly, endangered. The only more widely distributed land mammal in the Western Hemisphere is the human... and therein lies the problem. |
Bambi gone wild!Ken White President, Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA | 2009-07-29 .....Wildlife (everyone from snails and mice to deer and mountain lion) are coming to your backyard because there's a reason, or likely a multitude of reasons,.... |
Cougarwise kids help educate Upper County about cougarsBy MARY SWIFT - Daily Record WA | 2009-07-29 For eight years, students in the district collected data about cougars and how human activities affect their habitat and behavior. |
Bend teen may not have seen cougar, but issue remainsNina Mehlhaf, KTVZ.COM Oregon | 2009-06-29 Some homeowners are taking precautions after a Bend teen thought he saw a cougar Thursday afternoon in the northeast part of town. |
Mountain lion spotted in Hunter Creek areaMikey Marazza - Payson Roundup | 2009-06-29 A mountain lion has been spotted in Hunter Creek. Jo Armistead has heard the cat over the last two weeks and Ralph and Dottie Christofferson said every morning it wakes them up below their home making an awful sound. |
Dogs help Oregon couple fend off cougar attackBy Associated Press | 2009-06-26 COVE, Ore. (AP) — The first camping trip of the season for a Cove couple turned into an encounter with a cougar that ended with dogs and people teaming up to send the big cat into retreat. |
Dogs help Oregon couple fend off cougar attackCOVE, Ore. (AP) | 2009-06-26 The first camping trip of the season for a Cove couple turned into an encounter with a cougar that ended with dogs and people teaming up to send the big cat into retreat. |
AP EXCLUSIVE: Wildlife whistleblower case in NVBy SCOTT SONNER, Associated Press Writer | 2009-06-10 A former professional hunter for the U.S. government claims in a whistleblower complaint that he was fired in retaliation for reporting co-workers who illegally shot two mountain lions from an airplane in northeast Nevada. |
Possible sightings of big cats reported in OhioBy MICHAEL ARTHUR, Staff Writer - The Ledger Independent | 2009-05-26 Potential sightings of some very big cats have cropped up on the Buckeye side of the Ohio River Valley, including a possible glimpse of what some local residents believe to be a mountain lion. |
More than 1 year after cougar shot in Chicago, remains stored at Field MuseumAssociated Press | 2009-05-26 The remains of a 150-pound cougar shot and killed more than a year ago on Chicago's North Side are being stored at the Field Museum. |
Man escapes cougar encounter - Sun Peaks, BCLailani Mendoza - SPIN News Magazine | 2009-05-18 Number one rule when you encounter a wild animal: Do not turn your back and run. It may be easier said than done when you're... |
Big-cat accounts continue - North CarlolinaO.C. Stonestreet - Statesville Record & Landmark | 2009-05-18 Last Sunday's column brought out another sighting of the large cat that has been seen recently in northern Iredell County. |
Cougar Sighting Reported Near Chippewa FallsWQOW -18 ABC Eau Claire | 2009-05-18 The Wisconsin DNR receivesanotherreport that someone spotted a cougar, which has the agency wondering if there are at least a few big cats roaming western Wisconsin... |
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