Texas Fish & Game

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January 1, 2024

The Great Cougar Controversy

Cougars are one of the most controversial animals in North America. Whether it’s their depredation on mule deer, whitetails and other game animals or whether there are breeding populations easf of Texas, some debate always follows […]
March 30, 2018

200 Pound Mountain Lion Killed in Texas

Officials with the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department will be studying a mountain lion (cougar) road killed by a high school student north of Mineral Wells. According to a story at KHOU.Com  a Graford High School student […]
February 14, 2018

There Are No Black Cougars. So What About Those Black Panthers?

Just the mention of Black Panthers will get you an enormous and varied bag full of responses from just about everyone from the guy next door to your great grandmother.  First things first, there has never […]
March 19, 2014

Cougars showing super low survival rate

Only 7 percent of Jackson Hole’s mountain lions are surviving to adulthood, new research out of the Teton Cougar Project shows. Mark Elbroch, the cougar project’s leader, relayed his team’s findings during a presentation Monday before […]
February 28, 2014

Scientists track cougar in Hollywood

For more than a year and a half, the solitary mountain lion known as P-22 has made himself right at home in Griffith Park within view of Hollywood’s Capitol Records building. By night, he cruises the chaparral-covered canyons, […]