MAGA Controlled Wyoming Legislature Proposes Open Season on Mountain Lions and Grizzly Bears

The Wyoming MAGA contingent that now controls the full legislature introduced

House Bill 0286, a proposed bill that would strip critical protections for cougars in Wyoming.

HB 0286 proposes the following changes:


● Elimination of hunting zones and geographic boundaries for cougars.
● Removal of statewide and local mortality limits, allowing unrestricted killing of cougars at any time, by any means.
● Authorization of cougar trapping and snaring, practices that are neither selective nor humane.
● Remove existing revenue stream from Wyoming Game & Fish Department with broad allowances for hunting cougars with other game licenses, such as antelope, deer, or elk licenses, bypassing the requirement for a dedicated cougar license.  

You can find more information here and from the Cougar Fund here.

This same MAGA contingent has proposed in House Bill 0286 giving every hunter a stamp to kill as many grizzly bears as they wish outside the Yellowstone recovery area.

The folks at WyoFile just published an article on this.

UPDATE: Just as we were about to publish, we got news from WyoFile that the hearing on the kill mountain lions anywhere/anytime bill that even organizations who the bill’s sponsors probably thought would be lovers of the bill came out against it.


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  1. Ida Lupine Avatar
    Ida Lupine

    Just look at that beautiful face!

    These people think that because Trump is in office, he’s going to grant their wish list. I wouldn’t be so sure.

    They seem to enjoy insulting people’s intelligence, because they have none.

  2. ChicoRey Avatar
    ChicoRey

    I completely agree, Ida.
    And apparently so do the people who openly opposed it!
    Good!

    1. Ida Lupine Avatar
      Ida Lupine

      Yes, thanks!

  3. Jeff Hoffman Avatar
    Jeff Hoffman

    Wyoming has always been anti-wildlife. Just consider Alan Simpson and Dick Cheney. This state is run by ranchers and the oil industry, and wildlife gets in the way of their profits.

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Jonathan Ratner

Jonathan Ratner has been in the trenches of public lands conservation for nearly 25 years. He started out doing forest carnivore work for the Forest Service, BLM, and the Inter-agency Grizzly Bear Study Team, with some Wilderness Rangering on the Pinedale Ranger District. That work lead him directly to deal with the gross corruption within the federal agencies' range program.

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