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CA Wildlife Official Photographed with Dead Mountain Lion

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Outcry is growing against one of California’s top wildlife officials after a photo of him holding a dead mountain lion surfaced online last week. Hunting mountain lion is legal in Idaho, but illegal in California. Hunting mountain lion is legal in Idaho, but illegal in California.

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Black Panther In Los Angeles?

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While we were making our way down the mountain we saw a large all black cat cross the road from right to left we immediately slowed down to a stop to get a good look. When we had signal again I immediately looked up black panther sightings in southern California but I can't find anything at all.

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San Juan De La Costa

10,000 Birds

One where you get to enjoy the many different local desert birds, right along side the birds that make the warm salt waters they home. In addition to the hundred or so species of birds I regularly find here, there are Desert Foxes, Bobcats, Mountain Lions, Desert Bighorn Sheep and Mule Deer.

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Twitching Solitaire En Masse

10,000 Birds

In short, it’s exactly the sort of place that a family would visit even if there weren’t a state first record at the top of the mountain. And it just so happened that the solitaire had set up shop right under the swinging bridge. I’d get my bird, and the kids would have a fun day out in the mountains.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

But whether with a flintlock or a modern rifle, hunting cruelly takes the life of a living, sentient being that has as much right to live as any hunter or writer. Who wiped out the wolves and mountain lions? MARIE BROWN Baldwin, N.Y., EISENMAN Highland Park, Ill., Hunters like him. BRINNING Boston, Dec.

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The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation and Who Pays for It

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” They agree with George Wuerthner saying, “Nonhuman predators (wolves, mountain lions, coyotes, ravens and others) are disfavored by wildlife managers at all levels as competition for sportsmen and are treated as second-class citizens of the animal kingdom. All three are impaired when the basis of public debate is a myth.

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