A mountain lion isn’t happy to be treed in a photo by Wyoming large carnivore biologist Luke Ellsbury. A new law will allow resident hunters to train their dogs longer during the big cat season.
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PostedThursday,March 2, 20238:25 am
Legislation allowing mountain lion hunters to continue to train their dogs afield after harvest limits are met was signed Monday by Gov. Mark Gordon.
The bill, Senate File 178, authorizes the Wyoming Game and Fish Department to offer permits to mountain lion hunters to pursue lions until the department’s published last day of the season — as long as the lion is not killed.
Previously, once harvest limits were met, all pursuits of the species were immediately halted. The new law, which takes effect July 1, will allow hunters to continue chasing lions for the duration of published season dates, regardless of harvest limits being…
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Exposing the Big Game 
I can barely stand to read these horrid things always from south and west
And unfortunately sometimes from the east and mid-west.