OLYMPIA — Fifteen years after Washington voters banned using dogs to hunt cougars, lawmakers want to set permanent hunting seasons allowing licensed hunters to use hounds to track the cats. The ...

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 ...

With virtually no discussion, the Utah Legislature on Wednesday passed a bill that would radically alter the rules around cougar hunting. If Gov. Spencer Cox signs HB469 into law, it will be open ...

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 ...

Utah has never exactly been a safe haven for cougars. In fact, hundreds of them are killed every year by trophy hunters here. But wording recently slipped into a seemingly innocuous state bill would ...

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 ...

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 ...

A family of black bears were captured by a trail camera in this file photo. Voyageurs Wolf Project. Native carnivores are essential to the integrity of Washington’s ecosystems and the treasured ...