A Project of Sage Steppe Wild
The Wyoming Game and Fish Commission has adopted the first mountain lion management plan the state has ever had.
The Wyoming Wildlife Federation welcomed the plan.
The Casper Star Tribune has the article. Read it.
Added on Sept. 20. Here is a link (pdf file) to the Wyoming Mountain Lion Plan.
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Dr. Ralph Maughan is professor emeritus of political science at Idaho State University. He was a Western Watersheds Project Board Member off and on for many years, and was also its President for several years. For a long time he produced Ralph Maughan’s Wolf Report. He was a founder of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. He and Jackie Johnson Maughan wrote three editions of “Hiking Idaho.” He also wrote “Beyond the Tetons” and “Backpacking Wyoming’s Teton and Washakie Wilderness.” He created and is the administrator of The Wildlife News.
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I still don’t think that Wyoming is managing for the non-hunter that longs to see mt. lions. Why can’t there by non-national parks that are off-limits to hunting? Until then, the plan is biased to the minority that hunt these beautiful cats.