We can not trap them and have a bunch on the property we trap. We have taken a couple happenstance while out checking traps and had to pull traps when one moved in.
Not looking forward to removing one from a trap personally. Spouse would have the business end with the catch pole while I did the release.

This doesn't make since, as Coal Strip is just about 3 hr S.W of the N.D. border

I've only seen one in the wild and I got to harvest it.

He was traveling through ND and was mule deer hunting in MT.

They’re amazing!!!
If I die in the wild, you can blame the Mountain lion who got a big hug from me.

Luck you guys!! I still have to release all of them. Usually a solo job!

Local experts see them as regular as blackbirds round these parts.
Never seen as much as a track, but whatta I know.

How do you do that and live to tell about?

Very carefully! Get them good and groggy, or unconscious with a catch pole, take the trap off quick, release cable and take several steps away!