Mountain Lion Hunting / Population

[MeekandMild]

Had a thought reading the post about the movement to make lions an endangered species. Lions survived 10,000 years of intensive hunting and no game laws at all. What will kill them off isn't hunters but the the sort of stupid shortsighted land managament techniques which have brought us the recent wildfires in Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Californica.

So whaddyasay US Forassed Service? How about we ban roadbuilding, ban logging, ban controlled burns, ban hunting and then watch the lions all die at once some warm August night when their entire territory burns after a lightning storm?

 

[Steve Smith]

Ok, Art, you have me really curious now. I have several friends that hunt lion here in CO every year. If its that good, I'll try it. I've lost an interest in hunting elk and deer, but hunting predators has always been fun.

 

[Art Eatman]

I've been sorta keeping track of mountain lion sightings in this general area since I moved here in 1983. There are several areas where there is a "happy home" territory for a momma lion. These tend to be smallish mountains or mountain complexes, a mile or four from "neighbors". These aren't necessarily permanent-resident deals, as the food supply will have them moving about the larger countryside--but they tend to be fairly reliable as to some ol' momma cat hanging around.

And Mommy has visitors from time to time, the low-morals critter!

And so I regularly see tracks around my immediate area...About the only way to hunt, given the broken-up nature of land ownership, is to bait and wait.

, Art