Cougar Season
I noted with interest the many denunciations of the California Fish & Game Commission for its approval of an extremely restrictive cougar season.
Mountain lions survived more than 50 years of intensive professional bounty hunting with no obvious decline in their numbers. Certainly the few permits being sold will have no effect upon the lion population, especially when one considers that the hunter success ratio will probably be under 1%.
Let the management of our wildlife rest with the professionals. Sentiment and politics have no place in resource management.
Our Fish & Game Commission is to be congratulated for its decision.
JOHN LAUGHLIN
Baywood Park
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