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The Ballot Initiative is a bad thing when people vote on emotion rather than logic, and banning hound hunting was a perfect example. Now instead of hunting tags generating state revenue and keeping bear and couger populations in check, we've got bears and couger in urban areas and animal control spends state money to deal with them. WTF.

I took the family camping on Maristone Island last weekend and the guy in camp next to me came running over to say he had just seen a 6-foot couger run up the hill 200 yards from a campground full of kids.
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Excellent Sol!
I live in Cali, and have seen first hand how animal planet watching do gooders can mess up the whole works.
First I watched Mountain Lions decimate our deer herds, then I watched the news as Lions killed joggers and bicyclists.
Hell, I've seen three in my backyard!
You nailed it bud.