Posted on 05/16/2013 11:21:47 AM PDT by nickcarraway
That was well before it was a Los Gatos Open Space. It was manage by U.C. Berkeley then? You were just hiking? A cyclist reported being scratched by a mountain lion there a year ago. And the DFG checked it out ans said no mountain lion was there.
Yeah. That’s the one. I guess really I’ve only seen one or two Mountain Lions there and the rest would be have been bobcats.
Told a friend once about seeing it and he went apesh**. I started laughing telling him I’d seem em all my life and they don’t bother me, I don’t bother them.
Besides, they are beautiful to watch.
There’s field at the top of Felton, on the backside of the UCSC and they are there too. Haven’t been there since I was a kid but, you could see them walking off after you enter their space.
My wife and I were renting a house on Larga Vista Dr. The nephew of the guy who donated the land lived on the same street (still does). He told us about it and (effectively) gave us permission to go take a look. Beautiful spot.
For a number of years, I dreamed of building a small community in there tied directly to the university that would be dedicated to making products out of new technologies, a productive think tank if you will. Part machine shop and fab, part campus, with restaurants, shops, etc. Now it's just another overgrown disaster masquerading as "habitat."
I'll bet you could walk up a taxidermist to a mountain lion and it wouldn't bat an eye.
There isn't a mountain lion in history that has ever learned aversion or taught it to its young by dying. I agree that hunting is necessary, but it is not even a remote political possibility in this State.
What if it were determined that mountain lions were more likely to attack gay Americans?
Sounds like a great idea. Wish it could have happened.
That would be a "gone in the swish of a tail" tale.
Happy Panda to go. And boy was he pissed when he found out they didn't have the panda!
I lived in Boulder Creek in the center of the Santa Cruz mountains. Lots and lots of mountain lions there. Some idiot lady bought a goat and staked it out in her front yard. Lasted two days. Mmmm. Good eats for kitty. People were always finding deer cached up in trees around our place.
Can’t they build simple ladders every mile or two along these things? Too costly? They could inset them into the wall and not have them protruding.
I wonder how many cops and Sheriffs showed up? About 300 or so?
The coastal mountains near you are full of them. I had one chase me while visiting a construction site in Palo Alto off of Alpine Rd. in the coastal mountains about 5 years ago.
You have to keep a sharp eye out because their tawny color blends so well with native grasses. I often see them while driving the Hwys near the coastal mountains.... you have to know what to look for in order to spot them.
I had one poke it’s head in my backpackers tent one night while in a quail hunting trip in the Los Padres National Forest near Oceano (Pismo Beach). It didn’t like the smell of my pointers and left post haste.
Encounters in the Anzo Borrego state park are frequent. Just a few months ago a man fought one off that was attacking a woman and her kids. Ranchers I know follow the 4 “S” rule. See, shoot, shovel, silence.
Years ago the DFG had a herd of Big Horn sheep in the San Gabriel Mountains of ~ 450 animals. Their program was so successful that they were capturing an replanting rams and ewes onto areas that had lost their sheep populations. Single-handedly this herd was reestablishing Big horn sheep in California.
With the California law that took Mountain Lion Management out of the DFGs hands, they had to stand by and watch their prize herd get decimated over a few years time by Mountain Lions. Last I heard that sheep herd no longer exists.
All a result in Liberal meddling.....typical throughout California.....
Just heard of an account of electric tape fence for deer.
Of course they could just jump over it to get to what they want to get to, but...
smear some peanut butter on the tape, and the deer will come up for a lick, with all his buddies. He’ll set up a squeal and an alarm such that that herd won’t be coming back for quite some time.
“I had one poke it’s head in my backpackers tent one night...”
Wow, that was one brave cat, or a very hungry one. They’re a fact of life in North America. I’ve made sure my kids know what to do if they encounter one.
One half hour before a herd of deer stopped by to drink at the nearby spring. He was following them and just stopped by for a look see. I had my hand around one of Col. Colt’s finest.....He took the best way out and left to resume his deer hunt.
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