[bigdirty]

Fair enough on the pest control factor. If the mountain lion numbers are a problem and it is deemed the numbers need to be controlled or brought down for public safety, I support it. I don’t support just going out and trophy hunting for no reason other than to get a vanity item in your house. It’s the kind of mentality that leads to these amazing animals becoming endangered.

[Clint N. Suhks]

If any animal is endangered the Dept of Fish and Wildlife wouldn’t have a season on it.

Look what kind of protection the Snail Darter gets.

[rickomatic]

I don’t support just going out and trophy hunting for no reason other than to get a vanity item in your house. It’s the kind of mentality that leads to these amazing animals becoming endangered.

You're entitled to your opinion on trophy hunting, but your followup about it being the source of extinction is just plain wrong. Most wild animals became extinct or threatened not by trophy hunting, but market hunting. It is precisely sport and/or trophy hunting and the money spent on it that has helped to ensure the continuation of threatened species.

[PapaBear3625]

Fair enough on the pest control factor. If the mountain lion numbers are a problem and it is deemed the numbers need to be controlled or brought down for public safety, I support it. I don’t support just going out and trophy hunting for no reason other than to get a vanity item in your house. It’s the kind of mentality that leads to these amazing animals becoming endangered.

The problem is that the people who consider them endangered "amazing animals" will have wildly different ideas regarding what point the numbers need to be brought down.

My position would be to keep the numbers down to where the lions are killing far fewer deer than hunters are, while others might want to forego reducing the lion population until they are actually a public safety issue for humans.