Three charged again for interfering with mountain lion hunt

[Desertdog]

Three charged again for interfering with mountain lion hunt
http://kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=4193517


Two environmental activists and a journalist have been charged again with interfering with a mountain lion hunt in Sabino Canyon.


A federal grand jury Wednesday indicted Rodney A. Coronado and Matthew A. Crozier of Earth First! and Esquire magazine writer John H. Richardson on three counts in the March 2004 hunt.

The indictment was made public Thursday.

A previous indictment was dismissed when it was learned that a deputy forest supervisor didn't have the authority to close Coronado National Forest while the mountain lions were being hunted.

The new indictment says that while the forest was not officially closed, the two activists and the journalist believed it was and they trespassed several times.

Coronado and Crozier were indicted on one charge each of conspiracy to impede or injure an officer of the United States and damaging a foot snare.

All three men are charged with interfering with a forest officer.

The indictment said that Earth First! members openly protested the mountain lion hunt, which was initiated over fears the big cats would attack humans.

The activists, including Coronado and Crozier, planned to go to Sabino Canyon and impede the hunt by disabling snares and ground sensors and throwing dogs off by spreading mountain lion urine, the indictment said.

All three men allegedly threatened, resisted, intimidated and interfered with U.S. Forest Service officers by photographing and videotaping them and releasing the materials to the media.

 

[ArmedBear]

Maybe they should act as human shields and crawl around in the forest in mountain lion costumes.

 

[carebear]

I would prefer nature's irony. (not to actively wish harm on a person, but...)

While they are out there protesting, one gets mauled by a lion.

 

[ArmedBear]

I would prefer nature's irony. (not to actively wish harm on a person, but...)

While they are out there protesting, one gets mauled by a lion.

You have to admit it would be funnier if the maulee was wearing a mountain lion suit.

BTW don't worry about wishing harm on those who pray for your species' extinction.

 

[BUBBA74]

Three charged again for interfering with mountain lion hunt
http://kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=4193517


Two environmental activists and a journalist have been charged again with interfering with a mountain lion hunt in Sabino Canyon.


A federal grand jury Wednesday indicted Rodney A. Coronado and Matthew A. Crozier of Earth First! and Esquire magazine writer John H. Richardson on three counts in the March 2004 hunt.

They need to do something with that SOB!!! He's a scum bag in my book.

There is a little bit about him in this little bit by P&T.

http://media.putfile.com/petaBS

 

[Sindawe]

The new indictment says that while the forest was not officially closed, the two activists and the journalist believed it was and they trespassed several times.

So the forest was NOT closed, but because the activists and journalist thought it was, the were tresspassing?

***?

The activists, including Coronado and Crozier, planned to go to Sabino Canyon and impede the hunt by disabling snares and ground sensors and throwing dogs off by spreading mountain lion urine, the indictment said.

That sounds like a reasonable basis for the charges.

All three men allegedly threatened, resisted, intimidated and interfered with U.S. Forest Service officers by photographing and videotaping them and releasing the materials to the media.

So photographing and videotaping public servants, in public, is now threatening and intimidating? Methinks some "public servent" is drunk with power.

 

[eastwood44mag]

I've hated hippies ever since I was 5 years old.

 

[coylh]

What's mountain lion taste like?

 

[c_yeager]

So the forest was NOT closed, but because the activists and journalist thought it was, the were tresspassing?

***?

Mens Rea

If you intend to commit a crime, and take action to do so believing that you ARE commiting a crime, then you have actually commited that crime. This is why people can get charged when they buy a bag of oregano from an undercover police officer.

 

[ArmedBear]

Mens Rea

If you intend to commit a crime, and take action to do so believing that you ARE commiting a crime, then you have actually commited that crime. This is why people can get charged when they buy a bag of oregano from an undercover police officer.

Besides, if they do this, they are obviously stoned.

 

[Biker]

Last year, one of my Bros gave me a roast from a cougar he'd shot and I cooked it up in a crock pot the same as I'd cook any roast, and it was almost indistinguishable from a good pork roast. Very similar texture and taste. I was very surprised.
On the other hand, the bear roast he gave me was...edible. I've never tasted bear meat that I enjoyed, but I love that cat.
Biker

 

[rick_reno]

Where do they get mountain lion urine? Is this something I can pick up from Cabellas?

I tracked a big cat yesterday, it was tracking a deer that was leaving a blood trail from what looked like a hurt foot. Followed it a few miles as before they wandered onto private property, sure would have liked to have gotten a shot at it.

What's mountain lion taste like?

I've been told it's very good.

 

[carebear]

rick,

Getting mountain lion urine is actually pretty simple. It's a three step process.

Step one: Capture a mountain lion...

 

[The Real Hawkeye]

Where do they get mountain lion urine?

They follow a mountain lion until it's ready to urinate. Then they place a dixie cup in the path of the urine stream, capturing it for later bottling.

 

[CAnnoneer]

Mountain Lion: "Stupid apes!"

 

[spartacus2002]

I seem to remember a line somewhere from a news story where a sheriff told some hippies "mountain lions don't smoke pot." Did that really happen?

 

[Sindawe]

Yes, it did. Gotta love Boulder County. Its so crunchy!

TheDenverChannel.com
Men Ticketed For Pot After Picking Up Injured Mountain Lion
Wildlife Official Says Trio Was Lucky To Have Escaped Injury

POSTED: 8:40 am MST February 1, 2005
Three men who thought they rescued an injured bobcat or lynx in the middle of the highway were shocked to learn it was a 65-pound mountain lion.

They were even more shocked when two of them were ticketed for drug possession.

The trio was driving on U.S. Highway 36 from Estes Park, Colo., on the evening of Jan. 26, when they spotted an injured animal in the middle of the road near Pinewood Springs.

"It looked up as if to say, 'Help me,'" Jason Lee Laird told the Boulder Daily Camera.

The three men decided to rescue the animal so that it wouldn't be hit by another car, and take it to a 24-hour veterinary clinic in Longmont.

While Laird's friends directed traffic, he scooped up the large feline into his jacket and the three men lifted the animal into the back of the Jeep they were driving. One of the men sat in the back seat and stroked the animal to reassure it as they drove toward Longmont.

They stopped in the next town, ironically called Lyons, and flagged down a Boulder County sheriff's deputy who took one look at the animal and told them they had picked up a mountain lion. The deputy notified the Colorado Division of Wildlife.

The deputy told the men that he smelled marijuana in the Jeep and Laird suggested it was because the cat had relieved herself in the back of the Jeep. They deputy didn't buy it, telling the men "mountain lions don't smoke marijuana," according to the deputy's report of the incident.

Laird, 21, and Zachariah Deming, 19, were ticketed for possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.

The injured mountain lion, which wildlife officers guessed was four or five months old, had to be euthanized.

A DOW spokesman said the men were lucky to have survived the encounter without serious injuries. Todd Malmsbury told the newspaper that he had never heard of the rescue of a mountain lion that size.

"A mountain lion that large can kill a deer -- that's how they make a living," Malmsbury told the Camera.

Even possession of wildlife is against the law, but the men were not ticketed for that infraction, a sheriff's department spokesman said, because they were acting in good faith.

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/4150469/detail.html

 

[Art Eatman]

Yeah, for sure, mountain lion is very tasty. some of the best meat I've ever eaten. It was from a young, 60-pound lion a buddy of mine had killed.

, Art

 

[Justin]

A federal grand jury Wednesday indicted Rodney A. Coronado and Matthew A. Crozier of Earth First! and Esquire magazine writer John H. Richardson on three counts in the March 2004 hunt.

Hmm. I wonder if this is the same Rodney Coronado who's been convicted on multiple occassions for firebombing animal research facilities?

Nah.

Maybe it's the same Rodney Coronado who received more than $50,000 from PeTA?

Nah.

Could it maybe be the same Rodney Coronado who has gone to various campus functions, and demonstrated to college students how to put together molotov cocktails, and why they should be used to liberate animals?

Nah.

Boy, there sure are a lot of crazy animal activists named Rodney Coronado running around out there doing all sorts of crazy things.

 

[pokey074]

Hmmmm, wonder why they didn't try interfering with SD's first mountain lion season this year?