They can kill all of the Great Whites they want, but I’m glad they spared this cat.
You've just earned richly what you are about to get for that.
I'd not be at all surprised if you thought my neighborhood 'up in the mountains' was a great location for the release. After all, I'm bent over weeding for six months a year, so I probably wouldn't even notice it, until... So nice of your type to use our property to make yourselves feel better about having taken up so much prime land for your urban lifestyle.
About a year ago, my neighbor up the road had a 150# kittie casing his property. Seems kittie had a thing about hopping his eight foot fence and marking the ground outside his two-year-old's bedroom window. Pooped in a planter pot on his patio too. Yeah, it was a nice place to let your kid go out and play... before four urban counties passed Prop 192 over the objections of everybody else.
The kitties were here first? Oh really? No more so than where you live. My property was being used as a transit corridor for the Spanish Franciscans for fifty years before there even was a Los Gatos. I promise you: by 1880 there wasn't a cat for fifteen miles from here. Even as late as 1935, there was a town up here with a hundred cabins, a train station and a post office. The depression and State Highway 17 killed it.
If you want to BUY sufficient property that kittie can roam, go for it, but I hate to tell you that almost all of that is already taken and occupied. That's why kittie came to town in the first place, that and the fact that this has been such a dry spring there's very little water at higher elevations.
If the public wants large predators, they should be accountable for their habitat and well being. Instead, "our" agents at Fish and Game will put any landowner who chooses to defend his family or his animals under an inquisition costing as much as a college education.
NONE of this policy is good for mountain lions. In fact, the State is killing more cats than were ever allotted under legal hunting. Besides the fact that we now pay bureaucrats to do the hunting when hunters used to pay for the privilege, the only difference to the animals is that the cat has to be sufficiently stressed as to move into human abodes and cause a severe threat to life and or loss of property before DFG will issue a depredation permit (it's now DFW, but few will recognize it as such). Worse insofar as habitat is concerned that produces food for the prey these creatures eat (you know, the base of the food chain), what we have now is over-predation, which is causing the loss of herbivores that eat the vegetation that has become severely overgrown because "the public" won't let us burn it periodically as it has been for thousands of years. That means no forbs, which are the feedstock for the entire system. Native annual forbs are going extinct for lack of disturbance and succession run amok.
That's a very destructive sentiment you have there to the very animals you claim to care about.