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Published November 20 2009
Deer hunter shoots sixth mountain lion in western North Dakota quota zone
A deer hunter in McKenzie County has taken the sixth mountain lion in the state’s quota zone west of the Missouri River, the North Dakota Game and Fish Department reported today. The hunter shot the 3-year-old, 92-pound female mountain lion Thursday northwest of Grassy Butte, N.D.
By: Herald Staff Report, Grand Forks Herald
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A deer hunter in McKenzie County, N.D., has taken the sixth mountain lion in the state’s quota hunting zone west of the Missouri River, the North Dakota Game and Fish Department reported Friday.

The hunter shot the 3-year-old, 92-pound female mountain lion Thursday northwest of Grassy Butte, N.D.

The mountain lion was the sixth to be shot in the state’s quota zone. If two more are taken from the zone before March 31, the quota of eight will have been reached, and the season will close immediately.

When an eighth lion is taken in the quota zone, the Game and Fish Department will notify media outlets announcing the close of the season. Hunters also can check the number of lions taken in the quota area on the Game and Fish Department Web site at gf.nd.gov.

Season in the remainder of the state, which has no quota, will remain open through March 31.

The mountain lion season is open only to North Dakota residents. A furbearer or combination license is required.

I get a kick out of seeing these lions taken in places that I am very familiar with and as a kid never dreamed of seeing a lion there. Grassy Butte sort of a gently uplift sentnal of the plains, hardly the spot one would invison the habitat of a cougar. I recall hunting sharptail grouse and pronghorns near there as a young person. Theodore Roosevelt also talks much of these areas of western North Dakota as he wrote his wonderful tales about his life as a rancher and hunter in the badlands of the Little Missouri. He spoke only breifly of the cougar and never really elaborated about them for they must have been cleaned out of the area pretty much byt the 1890's. He made that long trip to Rio Blanco, County Colorado where he spent a month or more with a houndsman hunter named Goff and took numerous cougars and bobcats. One of which held the world record spot in the Boone and Crockett records for decades.


I would like to return to the badlands some day and see if my mangy pack of high desert walker lion hounds could put a lion up on one of those gnarly old cottonwoods along the little muddy. ( The stuff dreams are made of)