Posted on 02/15/2009 10:49:14 PM PST by george76
The Nevada Board of Wildlife Commissioners told agency staff last week to employ the help of sport hunters and contract employees from the U.S. Agriculture Department's Wildlife Services for the state wildlife department's new "program of intensive, sustained predator reduction."
Ken Mayer, director of the Nevada Department of Wildlife, said his agency would use science to figure out the number of lions to be killed in areas where the predators have been found to adversely affect deer numbers.
The state's deer population fell from 240,000 in 1988 to 108,000 in 2008, while its current lion population ranges from 1,500 to 2,400,
(Excerpt) Read more at charlotteobserver.com ...
PETA is not happy.
And in Wisconsin we can’t get enough hunters to thin the deer herd.
Did these guys get clearance from Ashley Judd for this wildlife management program?
Has everyone heard how Ashley Judd blasted Sarah Palin about Alaska’a wildlife management? Don’t you just love it how Hollywood idiots know more about any subject than those actually responsible for managing any given program, at least if Republicans are in charge of said programs???????
Laura Linney could not look too long at the First Family during the inauguration, because it was “like staring into the sun.”
These are some busy cats.
365 divided by 45 = 8.1111....
So each cat is killing a deer every 8 days.
how much for out of state hunters?......my hubby would love to hunt all year thru if he could...
Our town of ~4,000 had a 10:1 ratio of people to deer in side city limits. Had several confirmed lions drawn to the easy pickings, too; two of them were shot in town.
This fall/winter, a plan was finally approved, and 100 were deer culled for the local food banks.
Took just over 2 weeks for the professionals shooting in non-inhabited parts of town to take them out.
Breeding age does were the preferred target population.
Things were so good for them that most were having twins the last few years, with a lot of triplets even.
Also passed a “no feeding” ordinance. That doesn’t apply to us on the ranch in the county; they still get to steal all the hay, grazing, and fruit they can get away with...but some pay with their lives.
If I could charge the king grazing fees for his deer, the same as the king charges me to shoot the king’s deer, life would be sweet. ;-’)
From direct observation on my part in Nevada, your average is OK in the winter, and far too long a period in the summer.
Cats won’t eat rancid meat. They’ll kill fresh, and leave the spoiled remains to coyotes and scavengers.
What you say about twinning and tripling is true only of whitetails. Mulies won’t twin/triple the way whitetails will.
Dr. Valarius Geist (now retired) is an expert on deer/elk/moose populations in N. America. Years ago at a Mule Deer Foundation get-together in Nevada, he laid out what the problems were for mulies, and how/why mulies are not like whitetails.
Whitetails are almost perfectly made for the evolving land use patterns in the US, whereas the mule deer are being hit hard by development of riperian areas like the Truckee Meadows in NV, or the Front Range of the Rockies, etc.
That said, the Mule deer that live here had 60% twins for the past four seasons.
Where is ‘here’? I never saw twinning rates like that in central NV...
South central Montana
--it will be fun to watch as the same flak will fly as has in South Dakota--
That will cure all the problems.
Pure Tripe! This Don Molde that spouted off with this and the other so called expert are typical of the spokespersons for HSUS, DOF, PETA and other AR activists in that they play to emotions of people and can't back up their statements with facts.
ID State Sen. Gary Schroeder annouced the ID Senate has passed a bill offering other states wolves from ID because of their over population. It's a tongue in cheek thing but real never the less, doubt they'll get many takers.
Gary Schroeder: Offering some of Idaho's wolves to other states makes sense
--judging by what I have read, 2-3 grizzlys, several mountain lions and a pack or two of wolves would make the place safe-maybe in daylight- for well-armed visitors--
Thanks. Yes, these are mainly whiteys; maybe O’Bambi will toss them under the bus & do us all a favor.
OTOH, Mulies look enough like donkeys to city folk, that he may think they vote Dem, and will help them...NV is Dirty Harry’s state, after all.
OTOH, when we lived in the Rogue Valley in Oregon, it was Western blacktail, which I understand to be a sub-race/sub-species of mulie, and they had high twin rates in ‘good years’.
Our lion season ended this weekend, when the 15th female was killed. Total kill was 25.
Season was limited to 35 lions killed, or 15 females killed, which ever came first; or the end of march if kill limits didn’t end it sooner.
Oh, my word!!! Someone call Ashley Judd!
-—I’ve been trying to see one in the Deadwood area several summers—the damn deer keep raiding the bird feeders but so far no lion—
lol!
As for Deadwood, I understand that to see a lion, you have to put a hot tub on your deck.... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22164071/
—yep—and we know the lady , too—
That's assuming that 100% of deer losses were the result of cat attacks. You need to factor in other predators (human and otherwise), disease, starvation, old age and highway deaths.
In spite of my previous caveat, your estimates were still too accurate to merit a post in the Obama regime. I'm guessing your taxes are probably up to date, too so you're just going to have to try harder ;-)
Can you still hunt cats?
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