Texas still allows unregulated hunting of cougar
The iconic and beautiful mountain lion (cougar) ranges widely across the Americas, but population estimates are often unreliable. In Texas, where unregulated hunting still exists, it’s a particular challenge. We’ve just had a paper accepted by the Wild Felid Monitor on how footprint identification might help provide effective monitoring….https://wildtrack.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Monitoring-mountain-lion-using-footprints-WFM-March-2014.pdf