Colorado Mountain Lion Management Plans

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Colorado Mountain Lion Management Plans

Description

Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) manages mountain lions (Puma concolor) to conserve, protect and enhance lions for the use, benefit, and enjoyment of the state’s citizens and visitors. CPW’s goal is to ensure that lions continue to exist in stable numbers in the state for their scientific, ecological and intrinsic value and for current and future generations to enjoy through hunting and occasional observation.

The Colorado West Slope Mountain Lion (Puma concolor) Management Plan, published September 2, 2020, replaces all existing West Slope Data Analysis Unit (DAU) lion management plans.

The Colorado East Slope Mountain Lion (Puma concolor) Management Plan, published November 15, 2024, replaces all existing East Slope Data Analysis Unit (DAU) lion management plans.

The new management plans operate with the assertion that CPW's earlier DAU plans, each written to describe a single lion population, are too small in spatial scale to properly manage solitary, low-density, wide-ranging carnivores like mountain lions.

PDF's of the current plans and older plans are available on the right. A print copy of all plans is available in the CPW Research Library at: QL 719 .C64 M79.

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Colorado Parks and WIldlife

Subject

Mountain Lion
Puma concolor

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Citation

Colorado Parks and WIldlife, “Colorado Mountain Lion Management Plans,” CPW Digital Collections, accessed April 19, 2025, https://cpw.cvlcollections.org/items/show/546.