Lol......mountain lions don't always hunt at night,,..........ruined the article first thing.

Likely all these numbers are substantially low or high. Without harvest statistics anecdotal info is all that's available. No mention of any studies, like capture, recapture.

Yeah , curious if anyone agrees with the number given for their state

Maine zero.....that's wrong

Indiana not mentioned. We have several confirmed sightings but no confirmed breeding population that i have heard of. Some folks down in Greene County might disagree….

My guess is that is a very low number for Oregon. Without good studies it's all guesswork.

No...I believe the DNRknows they breed here

Nebraska doesn't have a breeding resident population? What'd they been smokin? They've had one for some years now. I caught one that got ear tagged with # 38 in the research ranks a few years back.

ODF&W has no clue how many exists or are harvested. Just how many get brought in to be tagged. Numbers are only an uneducated guess. Called and regulated as a big game animal. That's only because they need a big game animal that is said to be doing well. The rest are not doing well, mainly because the lions are mostly protected from efficient ways of control.IMO

I would like to have more "breeding" cougars here!

The author of the article is listed as AZ Animals Staff . So whoever wrote it doesn't want their name on it.

The numbers for California are way low. Fish and game estimated 10,000 25 years ago and they are more common now.

Pete

Well written article, Says there are 20 to 30 thousand in the US, then lists states estimates of approximately 47,000. smh.

I'm sorry but what a joke!!

I'm sorry but what a joke!! Was this an April fools joke?

Texas -- UNKNOWN

Just go out any Friday or Saturday night to any watering hole and you can spot several

I thought about you when I read the article and came to Nebraska. They have a season in January. 2022 says it’s closed and 1 female and 3 males were harvested.

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does ND not have a 20 animal harvest each year ?
and they report 30 animals

We can take 8 in zone one and unlimited in zone two, which is not really Mt Lion habitat. They do kill lions here every year and since we have a season, I would say that makes it a conformed siting. This is why I put little faith in what most people write up.