Wildlife advocates in New Mexico, led by the Sierra Club, are calling on the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish to end hunting of mountain lions and bears, aiming for a complete ban. Current data ...

State wildlife managers are considering increased hunting limits for black bears and cougars in New Mexico, citing research that indicates their populations are growing in some areas of New Mexico.

After a 20-year drought, the driest period in the Southwest since A.D. 800, and a record heat wave this summer, you’d think that the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish would give wildlife a break.

Tambako The Jaguar/Flickr / Most Western states rely on hunters to keep cougar numbers in check. It makes a sort of logical sense: if cougar populations are high, attacks on elk, bighorn sheep and ...

Her radio tag told us that F-91 was on Hardscrabble Ridge near her den. A week earlier, she’d run off the Hornocker Wildlife Research Institute’s Ken Logan and his assistant. No large carnivore is ...

“Years ago, Ben killed his first bear with a pocketknife—and in the fifty years that followed, he killed several thousand more.” MANY OF MY FRIENDS had told me not to see the old man at all. “He’s ...

OLYMPIA — Fifteen years after Washington voters banned using dogs to hunt cougars, lawmakers want to set permanent hunting seasons allowing licensed hunters to use hounds to track the cats. The ...