which animals are protected and which are not (but have very specifically formulated bag limits which serve to STRENGTHEN the population and give them room to reproduce without over stressing the food supply.LOL!! SInce when do hunters obey the bag limits?? NOT where I came from ..Western New York. The Grounds dept where I worked would deliberately drive the state owned van into the deer grazing throughout the acres of grounds and pretend it was a car accident and the deers fault....they did this on the second shift of course and were hardly seen. THen I continually heard about the plans to get away with more deer than were allowed...all kinds of deceiptful plans.... THen there is this guy who just last year here in florida told me about his hunting fatherinlaw who said he was going hunting and was talking about getting the PROTECTED cougars...he said they were definetley coming home with one of those because "THERE AREN"T MANY OF THEM LEFT YA KNOW!!" TYPICAL! Have you been out in the real world?
BTW if you read the hunting regulations booklet in pretty much every state it's illegal to use a car to harvest deer.
Also illegal to use artificial lights. Hunting regulations are based on fair chase. People who don't adhere to fair chase are just killers of animals, not hunters. Of course, there may be a greater population of animal killers in a place like New York where the Lefties have so much sway.
THen I continually heard about the plans to get away with more deer than were allowed...all kinds of deceiptful plans.... THen there is this guy who just last year here in florida told me about his hunting fatherinlaw who said he was going hunting and was talking about getting the PROTECTED cougars...he said they were definetley coming home with one of those because "THERE AREN"T MANY OF THEM LEFT YA KNOW!! If you were law-abiding, you should have tipped off the Game Ranger to poachers. Game wardens are assigned a lot of territory and they require help to stop poaching. Hunter Education classes mention this, more than once.
As far as the PROTECTED cougars, the hunter in question is breaking the law. Mind you, I did not say that the law is correct. I remember when California banned the hunting of mountain lions, they showed the baby cat, or the baby cat with the mother cat. What they did not show is what the mother cat hunts to feed to the baby cat. Domestic pets, cats, dogs, deer, and other sources of meat. Some hunters I talk to say that the deer population in California is lower now since they have banned mountain lion hunting. Go here to check out about deer population trends.
On the same site, they have hunter's feedback and you hear from long time hunters as to how the population of deer has decreased since mountain lion hunting was banned. Not too long ago, there was a woman jogger who was mauled/killed by a mountain lion. I wonder if the woman was still alive as it was being eaten alive by the mountain lion.
Link here Mountain Lion attack
I wonder if the family of that woman or that child knew about the policies that contributed to their loved one's deaths. I do not subscribe to the belief that we should go back to the days when humans hid in caves during the night to hide from these predators.