Last January, a trail camera caught a cougar hunting a deer in the Keweenaw Peninsula Big cats are rare in Michigan, but they do exist. For more than a century, officials believed cougars had been ...

The last of several people charged with running an illegal mountain lion and bobcat hunting outfitter that maimed the animals has pleaded guilty in federal court. Colorado wildlife officials say ...

The big cats once roamed the state freely. However, after decades of intense unregulated hunting and trapping, by the early 1900s, the animals had disappeared. The last known legally taken Michigan ...

If granted, the rulemaking petition would reverse the commission’s 2019 and 2020 expansions of cougar and bear hunting, which resulted in a 50% increase in the number of bears killed each year and ...

Cougar cubs have not been documented in Michigan in over 100 years, but state biologists can confirm recent photos officially ended the dry spell. On March 13, Michigan Department of Natural ...