Three men who violated the Lacey Act in Yellowstone National Park (an act that prohibits hunting in the park) have been sentenced in federal court. The men, from Livingston, Montana, were charged with illegally hunting a male mountain lion in the northern section of the park, north of the Yellowstone River, December 12, 2018.
According to court documents, Austin Peterson, Trey Juhnke, and Corbin Simmons, crossed the park’s marked boundary to hunt mountain lions. Each hunter admitted to shooting the lion and transporting the carcass back to their vehicle. Simmons then falsely claimed to have harvested the animal north of the park boundary in Montana. This affected the state’s quota system by denying a legal hunter the opportunity to legally harvest a lion.
On Friday, May 3, 2019, Peterson, age 20, was ordered to pay approximately $1,700 in restitution and fees, and must serve three years of unsupervised probation, during…
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Exposing the Big Game 
What is it with these A-holes! Why must they kill everything in sight? Why can’t they live and let live. Isn’t a living Mt. Lion better than a dead one? WTF?! This pisses me off!!!
Agree 100%
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..my heart lept..
for a nano-second..
..then I saw “probation”..
pffffffffft…
..big ‘effing deal…
Can’t play by the f*cking rules either, that’s the worst thing. Hunters ought to bring these guys in for a bounty, because the articles says their actions denied a legal hunter.
The worst thing is that they went out to kill a cougar at all that day. “Legal” or not, if their intention is to kill an animal like that, they’re scum either way.
Hunting in Yellowstone Freaking National Park!!! Now that’s ballsy. They ought to get an extra fine just for that.
That’s because the states allow full-scale hunting right up to the (poorly-marked) borders of the parks. When an animal returns to the park to escape persecution, the hunter can easily follow it in a ways and claim (like they tried to) that they were outside the border…
Hmmmm – now we have a good reason for the buffer zone. All of the arguments against it completely skated around the ‘duuuhhhh, I didn’t see the boundary’ arguent.
Among other good reasons.
This is the second time that I am aware of too – the last one was at Grand Teton National Park where a wolf was killed because he claimed not to have seen the boundary sign.
I posted that a week or two ago and the hunting saw the boundary marker and showed it to his client, but they kept going…