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Mountain lions moving into MidwestConnectTristates.com | 2011-03-10 Due to bigger populations in the west, experts believe some young male mountain lions are heading east on a search for their own territory. |
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. |
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! |
Dog owner fends off raccoon with Samurai swordMercury News | 2010-02-12 Dawson originally told authorities that the animal that fought with Stunna was a mountain lion, but officials with the California Department of Fish and Game notified him Thursday that the offending animal appears to have been a large raccoon. |
Reports of lion in Northern New York a hoaxWCAX - Vermont | 2010-02-12 Have catamounts returned to the mountains of Northern New York? State wildlife officials say the answer is no, despite reports circulating via email and text message. |
Game Commission deals with Internet hoaxTrib Total Media | 2010-02-01 Pennsylvania Game Commission officials in two different parts of the state have been dealing with the same Internet hoax. |
Police Investigate Cougar Sighting In MinneapolisWCCO | 2010-01-12 Police are investigating another possible cougar sighting in Minneapolis. |
Beautiful animal needlessly slaughteredDesmoines Register | 2009-12-18 The Department of Natural Resources has said that mountain lions typically leave humans alone unless cornered. I hope Goebel does not consider himself a hero in this slaughter. He sat 40 yards away and shot the nonthreatening lion using a rifle with a scope. |
Hoax photo doesn't help believability of mountain lions in PoconosPocono Outdoors John Serrao | 2009-10-26 There's a saying that "things aren't always what they appear to be." Never has this been more accurate than in today's digital, computerized world. |
There's Nothing So Rare as a Cougar in MissouriWall Street Journal - JUSTIN SCHECK | 2009-10-19 When Jeff Beringer got a Sunday-night call from a deer hunter who said he had shot an aggressive mountain lion last fall, he whipped the Missouri Mountain Lion Response Team into action. |
Wildlife commission: No mountain lions in WNCCitizen Times, Asheville, NC | 2009-09-28 The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission is warning the public that a photograph of a mountain lion purported to be taken in western North Carolina is actually from Texas. |
Mountain lion backlashMolly Miron, Bemidji Pioneer -MN | 2009-09-25 Since the story ran Monday on the Bemidji PIoneer Web site and in Tuesday's newspaper about a Bemidji resident striking and killing a young mountain lion on Carr Lake Road... |
Fish and Game reports possible mountain lion sighting in BarnsteadBrendan Berube - Salmon Press, NH | 2009-09-23 The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department reported late last week that one of its staff members spotted what they believed to be a mountain lion in Barnstead while following up on a routine report of a mountain lion sighting. |
Predatory mountain lion killedPredatory mountain lion killed | 0000-00-00 State game officials killed another collared mountain lion that they say has been preying on bighorn sheep in the Kofa Mountains Complex Predation Management Area. |
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. |
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