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The Mountain West 暗黑爆料 Bureau researched two possibilities for why certain hunting spots on public lands are getting crowded while the number of hunters remains fairly stable.

As Colorado's big-game rifle season approaches, state wildlife officials are ramping up monitoring of chronic wasting disease, which continues to spread in deer and elk populations around the state.

Sponsor Sonya Jaquez Lewis, D-Boulder County, said the restrictions were needed because bobcat deaths were 鈥渙ut of control鈥� in recent years.

Without snow or cold temperatures, hunters in the Mountain West have had a difficult time this fall and winter.

The U.S. Interior Department is expanding access to hunting and fishing on about 2.1 million acres of Fish and Wildlife Service land. That鈥檚 nearly the size of Yellowstone National Park. While hunters and anglers applaud the efforts, other conservation groups believe that refuges shouldn鈥檛 have hunting or angling at all.

Sales for both hunting and fishing licenses are up in Colorado this year. According to Colorado Parks and Wildlife, over 624,000 people applied for the big game draw this year, up from 609,000 in 2019.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has greenlighted the expansion of hunting and fishing access to more than 2.3 million acres and 147 wildlife refuges and fish hatcheries across the nation.

A National Wildlife Federation report published this week says new oil and gas leases on public lands could harm existing hunting economies in the West.

New research suggests hunting cougars does not achieve state management goals of reducing conflicts between the large cats, humans and livestock.

The government is calling on a New York federal judge to dismiss lawsuits alleging the group was formed illegally. But animal rights advocates want a ruling.