Application deadline extended for West-central Lion Ecoregional Population Objec

HELENA – Applications for the West-central Lion Ecoregional Population Objective Committee (WC LEPOC) will be accepted through midnight on April 30. The committee will advise the Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission on management of the west-central mountain lion ecoregional population. The committee will recommend population trend, size and sex-age composition at the end of the next five years to address lion population sustainability at a target level that maximizes public satisfaction related to lion hunter opportunity, lion conflict and ungulate population trends.

In 2019, the Montana Fish...