Mr. June, 10-4,

The department and other ranches in the Trans-Pecos and The Valley actively monitor and manage them. The department mostly does it to enhance desert big horn sheep restoration in and around the Davis, Guadalupe, and Del Norte Mountains and the Big Bend area and the ranchers are active for obvious reasons.

The Valley is a great travel corridor for them coming from farther west Texas and New and Old Mexico. We get them infrequently up here as they travel out of New Mexico along the Canadian river.

Good points S. Jaeger,
I've had one walk in the vicinity of my coyote sets twice 20 minutes from Austin along the Colorado River corridor also. They are buggers on Axis, about one every 4-5 months as they wander through on their circuit.

I've had 'em in Uvalde area quite often also meander down a bladed road as well as "just missed one" by inches (using these 550s is not ideal to get a big old lion paw on the sweet spot) last year outside Cotulla.

They don't even surprise me anymore they are wandering around so much but then TX is the land of milk and honey if I was a big cat.

You can trap them in Idaho but you must release them.

Imagine releasing 1 of those.