Outdoors: Comments sought on Mountain Lion Strategy

Montana FWP

FWP is seeking public comment on a draft Montana Mountain Lion Management Strategy.

Over the last 25 years, FWP has made significant investments in field research that helps inform mountain lion management.

Because lion populations function in big landscapes, a new management approach includes defining four lion ecoregions, large landscapes of similar habitat within which populations perform similarly.

FWP will then develop estimates of mountain lion numbers within these ecoregions using a new but proven genetically based field sampling method. With the population estimates...