Colorado DOW miss managing lions?

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Here is another one. There are pics of the cat if you look up Cortez Journal and click on the news heading. Two of my kids go to this school and the street in front of the house sees alot of foot traffic.

Homeowner finds lion in garage

Melinda Green
Journal Staff Writer

It wasn't the Kemper Elementary School mascot, but a young male cougar holed up in a garage in the middle of Cortez, at 540 E. Montezuma Ave., a block west of the school Monday afternoon.

Shortly before 5 p.m., the call came from owner Peter Hold, who is living in and remodeling the house, that a mountain lion was hiding in the corner of his garage, which was open both in front and in back.

Colorado Division of Wildlife officers Zach Holder and Greg Martin, assisted by the Cortez Police Department, were able to board up the front and back entrances and then tranquilize the lion. The 60-pound, 1-year-old lion was loaded in a dog cage, and Holder said it would be released in the mountains "into habitat a little more suitable."
 
I saw that article too. I think it was just a freak incedent. It was obviously, from the pics, a very young lion just kicked out by mom and looking for some new territory. I know that the quotas have been reduced in our area in the last few years. But the cat population is still strong, the lions still run long and hard, and the new quotas are still not always met.
As for the CDOW, well, I sometimes wonder if they manage anything right /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
Freak accident. I would agree but this is the second lion in the Cortez area. Remember the lion 2-3 weeks ago that jumped out of a tree on to the lawn mower a young kid was driving. There has also been two lions killed in Durango in the last month that had run ins in neighborhoods.
 
Part of the problen is SINAPU (I think thats what they call themselves), anyhow they are a big anti grounp out of Denver (big surprise) that wants to completely do away with lion hunting with dogs (or alltogether if possible). Their biggest arguement is that to many females are killed and the population is not self-sustaining (as you can guess they make up most of thier research). So, in order to help houndsman to keep thier season they have been having to "self regulate" the harvest. This is entirely vollentary. They are trying to keep the harvest of females at less than half, and if I recall right, they are accomplishing this. What this means is if the hunter/guide whoever is unsure of the sex, the cat is let go. This has been in effect for at least the last three seasons. So, in accuallity, there are probably more lions out there than before competing for the same number of resources. If the hunters can continue to "self regulate" it might give then the chance to #1 keep the season, and #2 eventually increase the quotas.
This is very much what happened when the CDOW caved into the antis and shut down bear hunting with hounds and over bait, and you know where that has put the bear population.
So, its probably not the CDOW who is entirely at fault. Mostly its the antis (SINAPU) who you should call and blame when Fido or Feefee or Triger becomes lion poop.
 
Same group that tried earlier this yr too ban P-dog shooting
think they have changed their name to "wild earth guardians"
I hope they get ate buy a bear or cougar (wouldn't that be ironic) LOL!!!

Gunnison and crested butte have both had cougars in town this spring and one has been out too Dos Rio's golf course in Gunnison all summer

Bears are a big problem too, they shot and killed one last yr that walked into a CB home while the people were there getting ready to go out for the night. (walked right past the old man while he was reading and waiting for his wife) She shut it in the closet and called for help DOW shot the animal later that night as it escaped and came back for seconds

I will not blame the DOW it is that dam wildlife commission that has to be blamed 8-10 people some as anti hunt as they come they are the ones we need to get rid of DOW only enforces the laws and policies laid out by the commission
 


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