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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

Any mountain lion killed in Idaho must be presented to Fish and Game within 10 days of harvest to have a tooth extracted and its hide tagged by an employee. A hunt report is also required.

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 ...

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.