Paradoxically, if humans carry out a cougar cull, “conflict is more likely since you disrupt the population structure that the mountain lions are maintaining on their own,” research suggests.

A mountain lion sips water from a creek in the 1970s in what is now Idaho’s Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness. Maurice Hornocker North America’s biggest cat, Puma concolor, goes by ...

The state Fish and Game Commission quietly replaced its president Wednesday, nearly seven months after he killed a mountain lion in Idaho and infuriated conservationists by posing proudly with the ...

Three wildlife guides face federal charges for allegedly running an illegal hunting enterprise that left mountain lions dead in Idaho and Wyoming. Latest U.S.

POCATELLO, Idaho -- Three people were indicted Wednesday on nearly a dozen counts related to the illegal big game outfitting and guiding of mountain lions. 44-year-old Chad Michael Kulow, of Kuna ...

U.S. Attorney for Idaho Josh Hurwit's office says that at some point in late 2021, the three conspired to independently book mountain lion hunting clients, accepted direct payments, and guided ...

Heart-pounding footage shows the moment a quick-thinking hunter in Idaho fired his pistol at a prowling cougar right as it pounced. A video of the frightening wildlife encounter, filmed via the ...

Each of the hunters who hired the group paid $6,000 to $6,5000 for the hunt, court papers said. Under their licenses as guides, Idaho Fish and Game requires them to hunt with licensed outfitters.

Idaho only allows guides to offer their services to hunters when a licensed outfitter that employs them ... Mountain Lion hunting in the tall grass during day,Bonneville County,Idaho,United States ...

Three big-game hunting guides in Idaho are facing federal charges that they illegally led mountain lion hunts in national forests and then shipped some of at least a dozen carcasses out of state ...

Chad Michael Kulow, 44, and Andrea May Major, 44, both from Kuna, Idaho, along with LaVoy Linton Eborn, 47, of Paris, Idaho, face various charges connected to illegal hunting practices.

As of March 2021, Idaho Department of Fish and Game removed all statewide mountain lion harvest quotas, allowing hunters to kill as many of them as they want for 10 months of the year.