Agency Ups Quota On Mountain Lions

Sun., March 9, 1997

From Staff And Wire Reports

The Idaho Fish and Game Commission has decided to allow more mountain lions to be killed in southeastern Idaho next season.

The decision is aimed at appeasing deer hunters, ranchers and other rural residents south and west of Pocatello.

“What we’ve got to do is harvest more lions and get them more in balance with the deer,” Commissioner Roy Brown said Thursday after the commission set new big game seasons.

The move cancels a proposed study that Idaho Department of Fish and Game biologists designed to get better information about how many deer are killed by mountain lions and coyotes in three southeastern Idaho hunting units covering areas of Bannock, Power and Oneida counties.

The commission will allow a total of seven female mountain lions to be killed in four hunting units next season. That is an increase from the quota of four females in five area units last season.

The quota will be six females combined in seven other regions, an increase from three during the 1996-97 season.

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