MOUNTAIN LION HUNT PROFESSIONAL

In these circles, itвЂ™s considered OK to kill a lion at age 18, as a right of manly passage. Hunters, many of them from outside state lines, get to keep the heads and the hides as trophies. And if we can have lions without hunting them as recreation вЂ“ or studying them to death for recreational goals - that sounds a whole lot more appealing.Д®very year, hundreds of lions are killed for recreational purposes, in other words: for fun. But that doesnвЂ™t exactly make it true that we need hunters in order to have these tawny beasts in our forests. It sounds good - the part about salty people wanting to keep lions around for all of us. Our hunters are salt-of-the-earth people, who care deeply about keeping cougars around for generations and they are proud to be doing their part. If you ask our state wildlife agency, the answer is a resounding yes: Colorado comes from a long tradition of conservation management and we need to hunt lions in order to have lions, is the answer. These stories raise questions of whether we should be hunting mountain lions for enjoyment as well as killing them for studies designed to enhance recreational hunting in Colorado. A federal judge halted the experiment in April, because officials hadnвЂ™t conducted required environmental impact analyses with precision. Starting in 2016 Colorado Parks and Wildlife began testing its theory of вЂњless predators equals more mule deerвЂќ to address a decline in mule deer numbers and lost hunting opportunities in southwestern and northwestern parts of the state. My first thought was вЂњwhat a wasteвЂќ and secondly, вЂњwhat a loss of not just one cat, but his future sired kittens, too.вЂќДЄlso in the news is that an undisclosed number of cougars, as well as black bears, have been killed (with more planned to be killed) as part of a $4 million multi-year, predator-killing program illegally supported with federal dollars. Montgomery got caught after posting online photos he took posing with the cougar вЂ“ a creature clearly in his prime at 170 pounds, appearing as tall as the man who propped the animalвЂ™s outstretched limp body upright for the camera. When he got home to Colorado, Montgomery used a slingshot to fell a bobcat from a tree and watch his dogs maul the feline to death. 6 attack on our nationвЂ™s Capitol.ДЄccording to news accounts, Montgomery tried to grab the officerвЂ™s baton, wrestled him to the ground and kicked the officer in the chest.

MOUNTAIN LION HUNT PROFESSIONAL

357 Magnum handgun at an undisclosed Colorado state park by Patrick Montgomery of Littleton, a professional hunting guide, who has been charged with 10 criminal counts, including assaulting a police officer during the Jan. Last month we heard one cougar was shot and killed with a. Mountain lions of Colorado have been in the news a bit lately. Mountain lions are being over-hunted in Colorado

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