"HSUS admits defeat in AZ initiative to ban wild cat hunting
Safari Club International
Arizona mountain lion hunting is no longer under attack — at least for the present.
Kitty Block, animal rights activist and Acting President and CEO for The Humane Society of the United States, released an announcement detailing the suspension of efforts to ban hunting of wild cats in Arizona — for now. In the release addressed to "Wild Cat Protectors,"
Block said the reason for suspending their efforts to gather enough signatures to put the hunting ban on the November ballot was due to an "increasingly competitive state and national landscape." The release concluded with a forecast of what HSUS intends to try next in Arizona. It is clear that anti-hunting groups are far from finished in their effort to disrupt the proper management of mountain lions and all wildlife in Arizona and elsewhere throughout the U.S."
Thanks to the AZ G&F Dept. and the Arizona Bighorn Sheep Society working together to control those cougars, the sheep are coming back.
The lions have been very tough on deer, but not so much on sheep in CA
