Cougar hunting permits will increase under a controversial measure the Utah Wildlife Board unanimously approved on Thursday. The number of permits will rise from 531 to 581, a move applauded by ...

It was 6:30 on a Thursday night and the Boys & Girls Club gymnasium in Sweet Home was packed. Groups of men and women in denim and hunting club jackets clustered near the walls. Most of them were from ...

The Spokesman-Review recently published an opinion piece against the state’s increase in cougar hunting (“Commission decision on cougar kills misguided,” Sophia Ressler, May 5) from a lawyer who works ...

Tambako The Jaguar/Flickr / Most Western states rely on hunters to keep cougar numbers in check. It makes a sort of logical sense: if cougar populations are high, attacks on elk, bighorn sheep and ...