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To: Clintonfatigued

“Are these on the rise?

Probably. Humans and coming into more empty territory where they roam.


6 posted on 11/12/2007 4:18:17 PM PST by SmoothTalker
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To: SmoothTalker

Damn humans........!!


19 posted on 11/12/2007 4:31:40 PM PST by Osage Orange (If you draw a gun, be prepared to fire it. And if you shoot someone, shoot to kill.)
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To: SmoothTalker
Humans and coming into more empty territory where they roam.

Prove it; as far as I can tell that's another eco-myth. Around here the land was settled for agriculture over a hundred-thirty years ago and abandoned when rural electrification powered well pumps down in the Santa Clara Valley. At that time the cats were under control. People started moving back in the 1970s. It wasn't until the Sierra Club sponsored a ballot initiative with all sorts of lies that the State banned hunting the cats that the cats have become a problem.

Now more of them are hunted and killed than ever, by unionized government hunters on a pension, where the State used to make a profit on tags.

52 posted on 11/12/2007 5:09:22 PM PST by Carry_Okie (The environment is too complex and too important to manage by central planning.)
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To: SmoothTalker

They are moving into human occupied areas as well. For years, ‘anecdotal’ accounts of mountain lions along the Little Missouri River in ND were ignored—until someone shot one.


119 posted on 11/13/2007 9:30:08 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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Some states have virtually outlawed lion hunting resulting in an increase in lions. I read that an adult lion needs about 200 square miles, and kills about 50 deer a year. I have no clue if that is true. I know that young lions get the new territories on the perimiter of lion country.


123 posted on 11/14/2007 6:00:12 AM PST by Scotsman will be Free (11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
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