Yes, Old Forester, you are right on the money. The city dwellers in San Francisco where shown pictures of cute, cuddly, fuzzy, mountain lions and hunting lions was banned in California. There are now too many lions in California and after 100 years of no lion attacks on people, there are now at least 10 dead, killed by lions in the last decade.
Folks have to realize that the environmental groups don’t give a rip about the mountain lions, jumping mice, snail darters, spotted owls or any other “endangered” critter or plant. There simply are a means to an end, first of all, making money, and secondly preserving the environment in it’s “natural” state (”Our members use the area for spiritual renewal” is a phrase that comes to mind). Well, folks, that “natural state is going to burn - that’s natures way of keeping it “natural”. I have actually had “environmentalists” say they don’t care if it burns, just so long as no one is making a profit off the (in this case) timber.