This story, “Riding for a Fall,” appeared in the June 1954 issue of Outdoor Life. It was dark. Except for a sliver of moon and a few stars flung across the sky, velvet black sealed us off in a small ...

Oklahoma lawmakers are considering a bill that would allow the state’s Department of Wildlife Conservation to issue up to five mountain lion hunting permits through a lottery system. Introduced by ...

Since 1973, Wyoming has managed mountain lions in a way that promotes their existence, using regulations that have allowed the native felines to bounce back from extreme scarcity. Cougars were once ...

Two influential hunting organizations are suing members of the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission saying they violated Colorado Open Meetings Law and spread false information about mountain lion ...

A new bill making its way through the Oklahoma legislature would create a raffle system for mountain lions in the state. Zach Key via Unsplash Mountain lion hunting has been banned in Oklahoma for ...

Since 1971 when Montana classified lions a game animal — up until 1962 there was a state bounty on cougars — mountain lion hunting has been based on quotas for many individual hunting districts across ...

Luke Worthington has chased lions in Wyoming’s mountains with his ragtag pack of seven hounds for almost 20 years. His 16-year-old daughter doesn’t know what life would be like without the barking and ...

“Years ago, Ben killed his first bear with a pocketknife—and in the fifty years that followed, he killed several thousand more.” MANY OF MY FRIENDS had told me not to see the old man at all. “He’s ...