If Colorado voters ban mountain lion hunting, would the feline’s population explode — or stabilize on its own?
The Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission earlier this year ended the state’s spring mountain lion season, instead restricting legal hunting to a single season that runs from November through March.
Post Independent Citizen Telegram3d
Colorado proposes new mountain lion management strategy as public interest in the species peaks
As wildlife advocates push forward a ballot measure this November to ban the public hunting of mountain lions, lynx and ...
Phys.org12d
If Colorado voters ban mountain lion hunting, would the feline's population explode or stabilize on its own?
An estimated 20,000 to 40,000 mountain lions live in the U.S., as do more than 1.4 million bobcats. "Both informal and recently collected empirical data suggest Colorado's lion population is ...
Summit County7d
Colorado proposes new mountain lion management strategy as public interest in the species peaks
“The biological impact to a lion population is the same whether ... There are two mountain lion hunting seasons in Colorado. The regular lion hunting season begins the day after the fourth ...
High Country News2d
A mixed report for Colorado’s wolves
Colorado’s wolf reintroduction plan calls for the release of between 30 and 50 wolves over the next three to five years. The first 10 wolves were relocated from Oregon, but until last week, Colorado ...
The Gazette12d
EDITORIAL: For the love of cats, don't forbid hunting
Decades of science-based management have led to a mountain lion population so large it must be reduced to preserve ecological balance. The state estimates Colorado’s lion population runs between ...
Colorado Public Radio7d
Colorado plans to release up to 15 additional wolves this winter
The next stage of the controversial restoration program comes after the state failed to protect its first batch of wolves — ...
Sky-Hi News12d
What Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s first wolf report does — and doesn’t — tell us about reintroduction so far
It has been eight months since Colorado reintroduced gray wolves into the state, the beginning of a multiyear effort to ...