Mountain Lion

Tuesday was an exciting day for police in Laramie after a mountain lion wandered into someone's backyard.

Big cats are dangerous when they are hungry

When the big kitty cat wants to lay down and take a nap, who's going to tell it no? That's like when you're trying to type and your house cat has other ideas and lies on your keyboard. There is some unwritten law that says if a cat lays down on your lap, you're stuck until the cat decides to get up. You...

Each of them admitted to shooting the lion and taking the carcass back to their vehicle.

Rock Springs resident Christian J. Cosby will pay over $5,000 in fines and have his hunting and fishing privileges suspended for two years, after pleading guilty to the intentional illegal taking of a bull elk in 2017 and taking a mountain lion with an illegal caliber firearm in 2018

The findings are published in the latest edition of the academic journal of Conservation Science and Practice.

Wildlife officers searching the trail found the juvenile mountain lion's body near several of the runner's possessions.

A full necropsy is planned at the Wyoming Game and Fish Wildlife Health Laboratory lab in Laramie.