Though Black Hills mountain lions are reputed for traveling eastward, a new study has found that those that move are unlikely to breed in the East, reintroducing repopulation concerns.

A couple dozen Black Hills mountain lions captured for research in the early 2000s included a handful of animals that made long-distance dispersals. Their movements are depicted here.

A wildlife conservationist has spoken of his "heartbreak" after finding makeshift fox traps on Belfast's Black Mountain. Aaron Kelly said the traps were made out of old shopping trollies and hidden on ...

The robust Black Hills mountain lion population has long been thought of as a conveyor belt of itinerant eastbound animals that will eventually culminate in Puma concolor reoccupying old haunts ...

Another Black Hills mountain lion has gone the distance. A subadult lion wearing a radio collar from South Dakota was killed this week nearly 600 miles away in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

PIERRE, S.D. - After hearing that the Black Hills in southwest South Dakota has a thriving mountain lion population, the state Game, Fish and Parks Commission on Thursday proposed that ...

Facing public opposition, a state commission abandoned a plan Thursday in Huron that would have reduced the mountain lion population goal in South Dakota’s Black Hills by 50 animals. The South ...

Related to this story Hunting season The South Dakota Game, Fish & Parks Commission will finalize the proposed 2011 mountain lion hunting on Oct. 6 and 7.

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The Black Hills are thick with lions. But those that leave are unlikely to repopulate the East, study finds Mike Koshmrl WyoFile.com Via Wyoming News Exchange Oct 3, 2024 Oct 3, 2024 Comments ...

Mountain lions are native to South Dakota and were numerous in the Black Hills until bounties and unregulated hunting drastically reduced their numbers. In 1978, the species was listed as threatened.