Let’s stop maligning lions. Science tells us we can ditch trophy hunting and trapping cats and have a robust economy with deer and elk hunting. Now that is common sense, supported by the science.

Ted Williams; Grafton, Massachusetts Big cat hunting ban would help end needless suffering of wildlife Rural residents of Colorado care about ethics in hunting. I’m a 64-year-old wildlife advocate who ...

In November Coloradans will vote on Initiative 91, which would ban the regulated hunting of mountain lions and bobcats in the state. Filed by the animal advocacy group Cats Aren’t Trophies, it’s the ...

Colorado does not need a ban on big-cat hunting In response to the Aug. 20 guest opinion by Julie Marshall regarding banning mountain lion and bobcat harvesting, the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation ...

In California, however, which banned mountain lion hunting 50 years ago, Sierra bighorn sheep are now endangered and state biologists report a decline in the black-tailed deer population.

It’s one thing to shoot and then consume deer and elk in fair-chase hunts, but it’s another matter to chase our native cats with packs of dogs and shoot them off of a tree limb.

Last year, 2,599 of these hunters killed 502 mountain lions in the state; if they hadn’t, a much larger number of deer and elk would have undoubtedly been killed by the big cats. Managing this balance ...

Last year, 2,599 of these hunters killed 502 mountain lions in the state; if they hadn’t, a much larger number of deer and elk would have undoubtedly been killed by the big cats.