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On 1/4/2026 at 5:14 PM, lorenzo said:

I would welcome that here. Our deer population is out of control. 

If i could i would kill every last one , 

Import a couple mountain lions

I think they are managing the white tail population here quite well!

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5 hours ago, sandhiller said:

Import a couple mountain lions

I think they are managing the white tail population here quite well!

There's authenticated photos from game camera’s all around my area. Perhaps the increased lion population is a result of a readily and plentiful source of food.  
 

Emma and i walk a two mile area along a heavily wooded river on a daily basis. Armed of course. 
In that area alone we have found the remains of three white tail deer.  No signs of arrows from hunting so we can only speculate as to the cause of death.

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1 hour ago, lorenzo said:

There's authenticated photos from game camera’s all around my area. Perhaps the increased lion population is a result of a readily and plentiful source of food.  
 

Emma and i walk a two mile area along a heavily wooded river on a daily basis. Armed of course. 
In that area alone we have found the remains of three white tail deer.  No signs of arrows from hunting so we can only speculate as to the cause of death.

Hanging in a tree or covered up with leaves, sticks, grass or other debris, is a sure sign

They are expanding their territory east quite rapidly I think

 

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The studies I have read, say an adult lion will eat about 40 deer a year, if available. Utah studies the health of mule deer by amount of lions in the region. No prey, no predators, or, no predators, no prey. Cheaper than flying choppers and counting deer in winter. More accurate also.

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5 hours ago, sandhiller said:

Hanging in a tree or covered up with leaves, sticks, grass or other debris, is a sure sign

They are expanding their territory east quite rapidly I think

 

I found it interesting that the 3 female lions were killed in the Niobrara region. Less than 15 years ago there were NO established lions in the area. 10 years ago, before Ernie got the lion season killed, the season lasted less than a week before the 2 females were killed. Now this year it took 6 days. 
We all knew there were big cats on the river, and I took Frank out to a covered deer to show him. The official word was a stray male, even though he told me that he knew better. 

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They are pretty durable and ranging animals. I'll get a few displaced young ones, or displaced old ones wander through my place, when they can't compete, looking for easy vittles, down on farm ground. Generally speaking, they leave horses and cattle alone, but like anything, depends on how hungry they are. They do like a tasty Californian, from what I read.

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Fruit and nuts interesting Cob

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On 1/8/2026 at 5:13 AM, lorenzo said:

There's authenticated photos from game camera’s all around my area. Perhaps the increased lion population is a result of a readily and plentiful source of food.  
 

Emma and i walk a two mile area along a heavily wooded river on a daily basis. Armed of course. 
In that area alone we have found the remains of three white tail deer.  No signs of arrows from hunting so we can only speculate as to the cause of death.

Fwiw 

 

Locally my hunter buddies wont go anywhere in woods now without pistol.  Too many Cougars and they are sneaky.  But? They admit is you're out for a walk and get jumped you wont have time to shoot most likely.  Cyclist was eaten by Seattle last year.  State was all confused why it was so low off hills.  Well you banned dog hunting them and now they have blew up population as population thinks they need more and more nature trails in their territory.  To be more earthy

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30 minutes ago, jeeper61 said:

The next Allstate commercial 

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Its sad honestly that this happend and that she thought for some reason she was immune to consequences

 

but...this made me chuckle 

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2 hours ago, jeeper61 said:

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....reminds me of the saying...''throwing the baby out with the bath water...''

Mike

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