I’m not sure of your point. This is Montana. You can buy a MT lion tag over the counter. It’s not like were not hunting them. Sh!t Happens.
I see them frequently in the mountains where I hunt. Of course, I’m in CA where they can’t be hunted.
The predator conservation group Sinapu has convinced the Colorado DOW to start new rules and tests for lion hunting.
There was a big effort by Sinapu to get the guy who recently shot a lion arrested. The lion had the guy’s dog in its mouth.
Not sure of Montana.
Not only do we hunt them, but they get eaten. Not such a bad sausage meat. I live along Cougar ridge in NW Montana, it is named that for a reason.
Gunner