Mountain Lion Status Report Available

When mountain lions returned to North Dakota is unknown. The earliest record documented by the North Dakota Game and Fish Department (Department) occurred in 1958, near Killdeer, North Dakota. From 1958 until 1991 there were 11 confirmed reports in the state. Then, in 1991, after a young female lion was shot in a barn near Golva, North Dakota, lions were legislatively classified as a furbearer with a closed season (Senate Bill 2043, Section 1). However, regulations still allowed landowners to kill a lion that was depredating poultry or domestic animals, and in 2005, a law change required that such lions be turned in to the Department (House Bill 1102, Section 1). In the 12 years following regulation of the species (1991-2003), the number of confirmed reports (26) more than doubled from the previous 33 years. When continued presence of mountain lions in North Dakota was apparent, a more formal reporting system was initiated and a mountain lion action plan was prepared by McKenna, Ermer...

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