Re: Cougar population by state
[Re: AntiGov]
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11/20/22 09:56 AM
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Nebraska has a well-established and state-documented breeding population, and we have a regular controlled harvest season because of sustained numbers. It's all on our state's Game and Parks website, which is easily searchable. Mark I'm not sure what this group is smokin' either. Jim
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Re: Cougar population by state
[Re: AntiGov]
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11/20/22 11:01 AM
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I know Kentucky has had one because the game department killed one about 10 years ago on the east end of the state.
No matter where you go there you are.
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Re: Cougar population by state
[Re: AntiGov]
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11/20/22 12:00 PM
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Washington State has no idea what it's cougar population is. They claim 1500.
About 20 years ago they banned hound hunting of cougars, at that time Washington had a robust cougar population, and hound hunters were killing several hundred a year; lets say 500. It is well known that the cougar population has increased substantially in the past 20 years or so.
Let's just assume that the population hasn't gone up in the past 20 years. That would mean that hunters were killing 1/3 (500 out of 1500) of the total population annually when hounds were being used; ridiculous.
"Boot hunters" alone are now killing about 200 annually, and that isn't counting for the substantial number of SSS incidents.
I personally knew one of Washington's cat bios several years ago, the State claimed him as a lynx specialist; he was as dumb as a box of rocks; don't even get me started on that subject.
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Re: Cougar population by state
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11/20/22 09:20 PM
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Yeah , curious if anyone agrees with the number given for their state No...I believe the DNRknows they breed here Agreed I guess that the female with kittens that was killed on the road some time back was just passing through and taking her kittens for a stroll
�Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks.� ― Robert A. Heinlein
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Re: Cougar population by state
[Re: AntiGov]
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11/20/22 09:31 PM
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Cougars are like all cats; prolific breeders and with the exception of lynx, are very adaptable. They are similar to coyotes; they can live about anywhere that people allow them to.
Look at India with it's very dense human population; they have lots of big cats, both leopards and tigers, and they kill many people each year.
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Re: Cougar population by state
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11/21/22 12:36 AM
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Washington State has no idea what it's cougar population is. They claim 1500.
About 20 years ago they banned hound hunting of cougars, at that time Washington had a robust cougar population, and hound hunters were killing several hundred a year; lets say 500. It is well known that the cougar population has increased substantially in the past 20 years or so.
Let's just assume that the population hasn't gone up in the past 20 years. That would mean that hunters were killing 1/3 (500 out of 1500) of the total population annually when hounds were being used; ridiculous.
"Boot hunters" alone are now killing about 200 annually, and that isn't counting for the substantial number of SSS incidents.
I personally knew one of Washington's cat bios several years ago, the State claimed him as a lynx specialist; he was as dumb as a box of rocks; don't even get me started on that subject.
I've met that guy, quite a few years ago. Dumb as a box of rocks is giving him too much credit. I also happened to know a guy who hunts for Washington Fish and Game, he kills around 50 lions a year for them. And that is just in a couple of counties around Spokane. Of course they don't advertise that fact. I'd sold him a couple pups in the past, but won't sell him any more, because states like Washington and Oregon that outlawed hunting them with hounds should have to live with them. The voters voted to outlaw hound hunting, the government shouldn't be able to do it when the sportsman can't. All that being said, lions while being very hard to eradicate, are one of the easiest animals I know of to hurt the population by overhunting. The only reliably successful way to hunt them is with hounds, but most houndmen realize that the population can be easily hurt and they tend to "farm" their lions (in this part of the country, in places like the sheep country of Wyoming that I hunt, they kill most of them, as the sheep ranchers really want them gone. But sheep manufacture predators, I swear, you can run traps, posion, hounds, airplanes, everything that you can think of, and if there is sheep predators will show up from the next state over.) to keep a decent hunting population.
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Re: Cougar population by state
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11/21/22 10:36 AM
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I see there are no cougars in Indiana, but I had one cross the road in front of me a few years ago. A couple of years later they were sighted several times in my area. Sometimes one and sometimes a female with cubs. I know what I saw as it was only a dozen yards away when it crossed the road.
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