COUGAR MANAGEMENT OBJECTIVES ADOPTED BY COMMISSION

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Eight cougar management zones will be managed for stable or decreased populations and cougar populations in 11 zones will be allowed to increase under a strategy adopted by the State Game Commission during its meeting Oct. 28.

“If we actually reach these harvest numbers,” said Bear and Cougar Biologist Rick Winslow, “we will maintain the population of cougars at a sustainable level.”

Winslow said the numbers are a maximum number of animals that can be taken, not goals or quotas.

In the portions of the state where the goal is to manage for stable or decreasing populations, the allowable harvest will be less than or equal to 25 percent of the total estimated population. No more than 50 percent of harvest will be females.

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