The number I've seen is each lion kills about 50 deer a year. Now do the calculations of how may deer that killing one lion saves over 4 years, counting all the fawns that would be produced. That's a lot of deer.
Now that it's legal in Utah to kill a lion with simply a hunting license, wouldn't it be great to see some conservation group(s) offer a bounty for lions? (since I can't see government doing that) Would that be legal?
The odds of just seeing a lion and getting a shot are really low. The most efficient way to hunt lions is with hounds, but the houndsmen I know don't want to kill the lions, they just want to chase them. If they kill them, they can't chase them again another day.
However, I bet a bounty would incentivize a few of them to pull the trigger, saving a crap ton of deer.
Now that it's legal in Utah to kill a lion with simply a hunting license, wouldn't it be great to see some conservation group(s) offer a bounty for lions? (since I can't see government doing that) Would that be legal?
The odds of just seeing a lion and getting a shot are really low. The most efficient way to hunt lions is with hounds, but the houndsmen I know don't want to kill the lions, they just want to chase them. If they kill them, they can't chase them again another day.
However, I bet a bounty would incentivize a few of them to pull the trigger, saving a crap ton of deer.
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