To hunt mountain lions in Arizona, you need a valid hunting or combination license and a mountain lion tag. For harvest quota, units are clustered into zones labeled A, B, C, etc. Each corresponding zone will have its own harvest quota. Unlike black bears, there is not a specific annual female harvest threshold. The percent of total and adult females in the annual harvest by management zone will be monitored to determine if harvest thresholds should be adjusted. Season dates for mountain lion are pretty open, ranging from the end of August until the end of May. Your bag limit is one mountain lion per calendar year. Mountain lion harvest must be reported online within 48 hours, and hunters must present a skull and hide with proof of sex to an AZGFD employee within 10 days of taking a lion.
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