Tejon Ranch News

Tejon Ranch Co. has agreed to pay $136,500 to settle accusations that its employees unlawfully killed at least 11 mountain lions at the company's sprawling property in south Kern County.

Tejon Ranch Co. is engaged in providing land and property development, and other real estate services.

Tejon Ranch, a huge spread of private land in the mountains north of Los Angeles, has announced it will suspend its pricey hunting operations after a state investigation found mountain lions were illegally killed there.

Tejon Ranch announced Friday that it plans to suspend its lucrative hunting operations temporarily as California Department of Fish and Game investigates the illegal killing of mountain lions on the historic 270,000-acre ranch north of Los Angeles.

It's been two weeks since the Tejon Indians learned they had been reaffirmed as a federally recognized tribe, capping a years-long battle to correct the administrative error that robbed them of their status.