Unfortunately, Mountain Lion attacks are becoming sort of common in California.
A few years ago a lady was jogging on a trail near Irvine Company land in Orange County and was attacked, killed, and partially eaten by a mountain lion.
Last year, a mountain biker was killed in Orange County. Apparentely, he stopped on the trail to fix his tire and was jumped from behind by the Mountain Lion. Authorities found his body tucked under a bush nearby.
This same Mountain Lion, a couple hours later, attacked another lady who was out hiking with her friend, and started dragging her down a hill into the shrubbery; her friend refused to let go of her and kicked the Cat and beat on it with rocks until it finally gave up. Authorities tracked down the Cat and killed it.
Also last year, in Carona, right next to Orange County, an off-duty Sheriff's Deputy (or maybe he was retired, can't remember) saw a Mountain Lion in his backyard and pulled out his pistol and shot the thing dead.
Boy... did the environmentalists get pissed over that... "he was just minding his own business and wasn't threatening anyone, why'd you have to shoot him?".
They need to start handing out permits to thin out these big Cats before they get too impacted by population numbers to safely roam their own range without being pressed into the fringes of the cities.
Oh yeah... I also agree with everybody that California is run by a bunch of Whackos who are disassociated with reality.
As for the "Adventure Pass" - I'm pretty sure that this is a federal thing, not a state thing. Pretty much, what it is, is a fee of $30.00 a year to use our National Forests, and the money is supposedly to go to upkeep of said forests.
I mean, I already pay taxes to keep up the Forests - it's not my fault the Gov't can't stop spending my money on other stupid stuff - so this is a way for the Gov't to fleece even more $$ out of us citizens in the guise of "user's fees" instead of taxes.