CA ag leader says lions 'have to be controlled'

[spectr17]

HollisterFreelance.com | Updated: Ag leader says lions 'have to be controlled'

 

[DBAR]

Maybe they will put out a few tags. Oh wait we're california...it will never happen!!!

 

[WildlifeBranch]

awesome pic. 1st thought was photoshopped !

of course, livestock operators can get a depredation permit if their stock are being attacked.

 

[easymoney]

wildlifebranch,
What about here on the central coast when we find multiple lion kills of deer?
When will the AB be reversed and a lion season opened?

 

[WildlifeBranch]

wildlifebranch,
What about here on the central coast when we find multiple lion kills of deer?
When will the AB be reversed and a lion season opened?

Todays FG commission meeting discussed a couple of times that hunters represent "1% of California."

from latest figures I looked up:

hunting licenses sold 2008/Calif 2008 pop est.=

301,968/36,756,666= 0.82% of California population hunts.:smiley_doh:

I don't think there would be a reversal of law based on impact to wildlife, [in part, continuing on the 1991 Proposition 117 theme] however, should lions become more of a threat to human life and property, that might shift the sentiment.

Eric

 

[dlovato]

Eric - nice statistics - but where's your graph!



- Darryl

p.s. What's going to happen in 2020 when Prop 117 expires??? Will the DFG support it's renewal (try to keep the $30mil/yr) or put forth some effort to show that it might have been a "bad idea" for voters to exclude management of one species... i.e. Tie DFG's hands in balancing populations across the board... Hard to manage all wildlife in CA, except for one - which has a big impact on all the others.

99% of california voters "will" listen to what DFG says - minus the extremists on both sides of the issue. 11 years and counting...

 

[WildlifeBranch]

hmm.... you've been waiting for that one.

what $30 million/yr? there was no new money provided with Prop 117; but existing funds were to be spentfor acquisition etc, to save deer/lion habitat. These are generally funds within the Wildlife Conservation Board.

the department said yes to a SLO bear hunt just last month. it only took a minivan-full's worth of people to bring that to a halt...

eric

 

[dlovato]

Yes, Eric - I have been waiting for that ;-)

Anyway - I thought Prop 117 specifically generated 30 Mil via new taxes/etc that specifically must be spent as you say... (not all bad uses of the money - not saying that)... But it did allocated, if I read this right, $30 mil in new revenue for wildlife.

<http://www.mountainlion.org/prop117guide.asp>

- Darryl

 

[dlovato]

Eric - Just for you... Hope you get a chuckle out of it - it's a pretty sad pie chart. No wonder you didn't create it along with the raw #'s

- Darryl

 

[WildlifeBranch]

nice colors.

Mountain Lion Foundation

 

[SaltonSeadog]

Bad odds, but if we get a jump om 'em, we can take 'em.

 

[savvyfm3]

Saw this in the Gilroy Dispatch a few weeks ago. Cats are pretty thick around here and I see a few more every year as I drive about.