MT Gov Kills Mountain Lion Tracked By Park Service

NBC News reports:

Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte shot and killed a mountain lion that was being tracked by the National Park Service in December, his second such hunt of a monitored animal that ventured outside the protected areas of Yellowstone National Park.

The Republican governor “had a valid mountain lion license, treed a lion on public land in Park County and harvested it,” his spokesperson, Brooke Stroyke, said, adding that dogs were used in the hunt and drove the lion up the tree.

In 2021, Gianforte told the Helena Independent Record that he “made a mistake” after he trapped and killed a Montana black wolf that was also tagged in Yellowstone before he completed the required state certification.

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Gov Gianforte — who once assaulted a reporter for asking him a basic policy question — killed a mountain lion on public land after it had reportedly been cornered in a tree for hours by hounds while he made his way from a different sitehttps://t.co/ANQYP9gbmg

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