GREAT FALLS, Mont. — A female mountain lion that surprised biologists when she traveled some 450 miles from southeastern British Columbia to central Montana has been legally killed by a hunter ...

Andrews says Goebel called to see if he could legally shoot the animal and found out he could, and then shot it. He says it is the first confirmed female mountain lion in Iowa.

Wendy Keefover-Ring, director of carnivore protection for Boulder-based Sinapu, a wildlife advocacy group, called the required training “cutting-edge.” “It’s really going to encourage more ...