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The coyote population around Coeur d’Alene, Idaho is exploding. People put warnings up on the NextDoor app “Coyote just sighted in this neighborhood. Keep your pets in.” The discussion ALWAYS devolves to:
1. Shoot them: they are predators and are a danger to people, the community and to livestock.
2. The were here first, they are God’s creatures, we are destroying their habitat, and they are hungry.
About 80% to 90% of people are in Camp #1, but there are some real agitated kooks in Camp #2. I told to one kook in #2 that I hope she doesn’t get badly affected by the growing coyote population and get attacked. She wrote back “Are you threatening me?”
The area is surrounded by Coeur d’Alene National Forest which is 1,130 square miles of wilderness and all of Idaho has 4.7 million acres of designated wilderness (the third largest amount in the lower 48). When you point out that critters have plenty of land on which to roam and hunt, but they come to neighborhoods for easy food (cats, small dogs, young children), they go apoplectic. “Who are WE to decide who lives and dies? We shouldn’t play God!” These people are absolutely nuts.
I can’t believe these people have infested North Idaho.
California banned mountain lion hunting decades ago. Now they have an excess. Humans in California are no longer at the top of the food chain but are now a part of the menu.
https://wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Mammals/Mountain-Lion
The California Wildlife Protection Act of 1990 (Proposition 117) legally classified mountain lions as a “specially protected mammal”. It is unlawful to take, injure, possess, transport, import, or sell any mountain lion or any part or product thereof.
Well, what would you expect her to do?
The 5 year old daughter of a former neighbor was carried off by a mountain lion in Orange County CA.
She was rescued but severely injured. This was in 1986.
A lawsuit ensued and they won several million dollars from the county.
They proved that the county was aware of the presence of the lion and did not warn the park visitors.
Best guess for why the CDFW was denied access to private properties is once you give them permission, you give them permission for life for anytime they want to roam on your property.
Fish & Game and/or the local sheriff can get a warrant to enter on the land. Go find a magistrate judge. They just don't want to deal with it.
Baby lives don’t matter.
If someone else gets killed by the lion then those who let it go should be charged with man slaughter.