Call it a mountain lion, a puma, a catamount, it’s been gone from the state since 1858. A return is possible.

An Oregon man started a depredation control service after a cougar killed his wife's goat in 2018. Eric Lee has since killed ...

Scott Chew, a Utah state representative for Uintah County and fourth generation rancher, keeps records of his sheep killed by cougars. While he suspects the average to be about 15 a year, there was ...

Two cougar cubs spotted last spring in Ontonagon County were seen again this month, walking along a snowy trail with an adult cougar in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Specialists confirmed the pair of ...

MARQUETTE, MI – There’s no doubt about the growing evidence that cougars roam the wildest reaches of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Last year, state wildlife officials recorded 23 confirmed cougar ...

Cougars were detected 31 times in Michigan in 2025, according to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. That's the highest number of confirmed observations since the predator was wiped out of ...

ONTONAGON COUNTY, MI — Two cougar cubs found this spring in the Upper Peninsula remain alive and traveling with their mother, a confirmation that Michigan wildlife officials say represents a historic ...

Large carnivores are both clashing and coexisting in the western United States. Although wolves dominate cougars and steal their prey, cougars' shift from elk- to deer-heavy diets, paired with a ...

On May 12, 2021, DNR staff identified cougar tracks in southern Luce County while conducting field work. This is about 115 miles from where the March 31 video was captured in Dickinson County.