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Bonzoboy1
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http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_19992359
One of California's top wildlife officials found himself in the political line of fire Friday, after a photo surfaced showing him holding a dead mountain lion he killed in what appeared to be a recent big game hunt.
Daniel W. Richards, president of the California Fish and Game Commission, shot the lion in Northern Idaho. The photo was posted on the website of Western Outdoor News, a hunting and fishing publication.
Mountain lion hunting has been illegal in California since 1990, when voters passed Proposition 117.
Within hours of the photo appearing, callers deluged the state Fish and Game Commission office, and the Humane Society of the United States urged Richards to step down.
"It's not illegal. But he's thumbed his nose at the people of California," said Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of the Humane Society. "He's supposed to be representing the interests of all California citizens. It seems like such a tone-deaf action. What part of 'no' doesn't he understand?"
Richards did not respond to requests for an interview.
He hunted an animal legally in another state, what the hell is the big deal? Sounds like the president of the Humane Society is brain dead.
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He kills animals for sport. I can't imagine why that would piss of the president of the humane society.
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Oh Gosh! He killed a fricken lion? But the poor lion was never given a chance to sneak into a campsite and kill a baby! 
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vn_nnanji
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Wait....the President of the Fish and Game commission is a hunter? OH NOEZ! 
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Manegarm
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I do not see the issue..
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Mastara
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Tell em to cry more. As a citizen we have the rights to hunt and we exercise it. If you dont like it, feel free to exercise your right to leave.
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If its legal in another state no big deal. Also hunting is a legal sport done by millions of people.
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Cawlin
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Registered: 2005-2-22 07:58:42
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vn_nnanji posted:
Wait....the President of the Fish and Game commission is a hunter? OH NOEZ!
LOL exactly this!
Game commissioners are (rightly) all about conservation as hunters and fishers themselves. These folks are charged with husbanding our wildlife and wilderness areas but their charge includes managing the various populations of the species under their purview, and one of those ways of managing wildlife population is through hunting and hunting regulations. Frankly, a game commissioner that was not a hunter (at the very least with a camera/sketchbook) or who didn't fish (at the very least catch and release) would be highly suspect in my book and likely not a good candidate for the job.
As a game commissioner you have an unenviable task of interfacing with the wilderness AND with the hunting and fishing public AND with the anti-hunting/fishing public. It's not an easy job and given that the officers are bound to uphold the states' position on wildlife management through regulated hunting, if they were non or anti-hunters/fishers themselves, things just wouldn't work out...
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NuEM
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Registered: 2004-3-2 09:08:11
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Hunting for fun seems very "human" to me.
Okay now that I think about it other animals do it too.
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Cawlin
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NuEM posted:
Hunting for fun seems very "human" to me.
Okay now that I think about it other animals do it too.
Mountain lions are an interesting case though to be honest.
There's a large part of me that thinks that if you can see a mountain lion and have an opportunity to shoot it, you should. The reason for that is that if mountain lions' populations are getting to the point that they are encroaching on human populated areas, they are now a danger to humans. Further, yes, in a lot of areas mountain lions are pretty had on livestock as well.
Of course, the hunter in me would love to see a mountain lion since they are all but extinct in Pennsylvania.
All in all, I don't really "hunt for fun (only)". I don't hunt anything I won't eat, but I don't need to hunt to eat, I enjoy it and do it for the sport of it really, but again, I won't kill what I don't intend to eat.
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