Washington’s Olympic Peninsula has seen an influx of new human residents in recent years, as pollution-driven factors such as rising temperatures and extreme weather events have led many people to ...

After a 20-year drought, the driest period in the Southwest since A.D. 800, and a record heat wave this summer, you’d think that the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish would give wildlife a break.

On Dec. 15, the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission voted 7-2 to begin rulemaking on cougar and bear hunting at the behest of special interest groups whose primary aim is to dismantle hunting ...

A slim majority of the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission has proposed ratcheting down on hunting cougars. Wildlife advocates have petitioned the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission to repeal ...

Oct. 25—A coalition of environmental groups is urging Washington to undo some recent changes to cougar and black bear hunting rules, arguing the tweaks have led to too many of the animals being killed ...

Washington’s cougar hunting rules have been rewritten. In a virtual meeting Friday, the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission voted to approve a new suite of cougar hunting rules after months of ...

SALEM, Ore. -- The long-running debate over cougar hunting was reignited when the Oregon House approved a bill yesterday allowing counties to ignore a statewide ban on hunting cougars with packs of ...

South of Sequim on May 8, 2021, we caught a 2-year-old female cougar as part of the Olympic Cougar Project and fitted her with a GPS collar. We used her data to determine where cougars are most likely ...

Cougar hunting will be closed in six Washington counties during the statewide deer-hunting season that begins Oct. 17. Under a new rule approved earlier this year, no cougars may be taken during the ...

SLC Cougar Hunt 101 We recently went on a badly timed (weather-wise) Main Street pub crawl, but we learned something that made it almost worth it: There be cougars in these here hills—or lowlands, as ...

MISSOULA Successful and surprisingly noncontroversial its first two seasons, mountain lion hunting will again be allowed in the mountains north of Missoula this winter. The state of Montana and the ...