Historic Bighorn Restoration Program Helping Both Sheep and Mountain Lions
TUCSON, Ariz.—(ENEWSPF)–January 5, 2015. The number of mountain lions killed by hunters in southern Arizona’s Catalina and Rincon Mountains declined 40 percent in 2014, according to Arizona Game and Fish Department records. This follows a 9 percent decline in 2013. 2014 was the largest single-year, and 2013-2014 the largest two-year, decline in lion killings since 1982 (see Figure 1). In raw numbers, 22 lions were…
