Exactly!


I'll try and answer some of your questions though the data I have compiled stops at 1998, thats when I kinda stopped fighting the fight. I do have some graphs that go back to the 30's prior to the bounty days.
I have in front of me a state wildlife complaint sheet that is broke down into individual state counties for both bear and cougar. I have it from prior the ban and up to 1998. Also in hand is a permit harvest summary for cougars from 1987-1995 (and partial data for 1996)

Top five counties for cougar incidents
1995

Pierce..... 30
Stevens.. 28
King........ 21
Okanogan 20
Ferry....... 17

1998

Spokane.. 105 (1995=7) major increase
King......... 95
Stevens... 88
Pierce...... 71
Snohomish 71 (1995=11) major increase
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1987

170 permits 60 cougars harvested

1995

446 permits 283 cougars harvested

here is an interesting side note at the bottom of this page I am looking at
It reads like this,

* The 1994 and 1995 permit totals and hunter success rates do not include "boot only" cougar hunting activity. Despite 811 boot only permits being available. only 365 were purchased and 121 people actually hunted cougar without hounds. Boot hunters killed a total of 3 cougar in 1994 and 1995.

Let me know if there is anything else. If you want specific counties for comparision let me know.
Granted these are only compliants but as stated prior I believe them to be good data on population status. (no fuzzy math here )