Nebraska Game and Parks Commission
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In response to expanding
mountain lion populations in
Nebraska, the Nebraska Game
and Parks Commission approved
a 2025 mountain lion hunting
season that included a new unit
– the Wildcat Hills (shown here).
Expanding mountain lion management strategies
In response to expanding mountain lion populations in Nebraska, the Nebraska Game and Parks
Commission approved a 2025 mountain lion hunting season that included a new unit: the Wildcat Hills. It
joined the existing Pine Ridge and Niobrara units as areas that allow mountain lion harvest.
Harvest limits also were set to help Game and Parks meet its objective to maintain resilient, healthy, and
socially acceptable mountain lion populations that are in balance with available habitat and other wildlife
species over the long term. They were:
•
12 cats, with a sublimit of six females, in the Pine Ridge Unit;
•
Three cats, with a sublimit of two females, in the Wildcat Hills Unit;
•
Four cats, with a sublimit of two females, in the Niobrara Unit.
The season ends immediately in each unit when its limit, or a sub-limit of females, has been met.
A total of 1,520 permits were available to Nebraska residents by a drawing.
