It’s been a rough year for hunters in California. It started with the controversy surrounding former President of the California Fish and Game Commission, Dan Richards, and his legal Idaho mountain lion hunt. Photos of him with the cat on Facebook was all that the animal rights groups needed to call for his job. Richards [...]
Mountain Lion Hunting in California
California Department of Fish and Game Changes Its Name. Are They Giving Up on Hunting?
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The GoHUNTn Line–The Best Trophies and Hunting News: Hunter Numbers Grow, Bears Drinking Beer, and More!
There are a lot of awesome posts on GoHUNTn throughout the week. Here are 10 of our most popular GoHUNTn updates from the past week: Hunter Participation Up For First Time in Decades – Our sports are getting more and more important! Bears Rip Down Cabin Wall and Pound 100-Plus Beers in Norway – This sounds like [...]
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President of California Fish and Game Commission Loses Post over Mountain Lion Hunt
I certainly thought this story was over, but it looks like Dan Richards could not fend off the anti-hunters in the end, and he has been stripped of his title as President of the California Fish and Game Commission. The hubbub began when Richards went on a legal mountain lion hunt in Idaho. After the [...]
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National Parks Service Excited About Mountain Lion Cub Births in California
We’re not so sure that Californians are going to be excited, but the National Parks Service is thrilled about a pair of mountain lion cubs that have been born in the Santa Monica Mountains near Thousand Oaks, California. “The fact that successful reproduction is occurring in the mountains indicates that we have high-quality habitat for [...]
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Coyote vs. Mountain Lion
You wouldn’t think that a coyote would be able to scare off a mountain lion, but that’s just what happened in Whiting Ranch Wilderness Park in southern California. Robert Meyer was hiking in the Orange County park when he captured this video. The park had just reopened after a 2-year-old mountain lion was spotted on July [...]
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Man Survives Mountain Lion Attack in California
Californians have a lot of regulations when it comes to hunting, and a ban on mountain lion hunting is one of them. But, mountain lions have no qualms using whatever means necessary to hunt us. According to ABC News, a man sleeping in his tent near Yuba River in California was badly attacked by a [...]
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California Hunters Win Their Right to Use Dogs to Hunt
It’s been a tumultuous year for hunters in California, which probably won’t come as a surprise to anyone who reads this blog. But, in the end, we’ve been victorious, and now there’s another tally on the scoreboard for hunters over the antis. A bill that would have made it illegal for hunters to use dogs while bear [...]
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Mountain Lion Killed in Santa Monica, Calif.
It’s illegal to hunt mountain lions in California, and they love their big cats in the Golden State, as the President of the California Fish and Game Commission can tell you. So, the residents of Santa Monica were upset when officials were unable to tranquilize the mountain lion that was prowling through its downtown, and instead had to [...]
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California Moves to Ban Hunting with Dogs
It wasn’t easy, but Animal Rights activists are celebrating a victory in California, which could have huge ramifications on hunters in the Golden State. The California Senate has approved a bill today that would ban the use of hounds to hunt bears and bobcats in the state. The Humane Society-sponsored bill was introduced after the [...]
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California Seeking Poacher Who Killed Mountain Lion and Sawed Off His Paws
Someone called the California Highway Patrol a week ago on Tuesday, April 24 to report a deer hit on the side of U.S. Route 101 near Buellton in Central California’s Santa Barbara County. Instead what they found was a mountain lion, and when the state Fish and Game officer reached the scene, they realized they were [...]
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