Update: A juvenile male mountain lion was shot earlier this week by a neighbor of ours.

I think safe to assume it was the same as the one shared in my OP.

Bad Bull. No reason to kill it. Texans have a hard time sharing nature w nature.

We had two instances of lions on our high fence ranch in the hill country in the years we had it and I had experiences with a few on ranches I helped manage.
The first on our ranch was a female with cubs and she killed a crap young WT buck we had. Then she moved on.
The second was a male that killed three Axis we had, but he moved on, thankfully. Had he not, I would have had no choice but to get rid of him someway.
They never bothered any other exotic species we had, and no effect on our WT herd that caused us alarm.
I worked with Dr Inglis in WFS one summer on a predator project in south Texas and learned a lot from that…..and what importance they play in the ecosystem…..Also with the TPWD lion project guys back in the 80's and learned a lot from them on the lions habits and lives.
All predators, apex and mesopredators have their place and function but with the advent of man that balance has been forever changed so now they must be managed as you say.
I had a huge investment in animals at our ranch as well. We had some predator kills by lions and occasionally by coyotes. Except for our Axis, they usually killed animals that I would have culled probably anyway.
I understand your thoughts and feelings on the predators same as your dislike of Aoudads. I have always respected your knowledge and opinions and feel the same in this discussion.
Apex predators have their place or the mesopredators will overpopulate. Mesopredators have their place or we will be overrun with vermin. I've always had the mindset that God was pretty smart in his creation but man has changed the habitat with introduction of domesticated animals and development of land and so the predators and prey have to be managed or they will get all out of balance.
I say again, I understand and can relate to your thoughts too!

The feeling is mutual

He did not say anything about eradicating the species. He just voiced his opinion that on his land, the predators in his opinion, have hurt the resource that he hunts and he wants to keep that from happening by controlling the numbers on his place. He does have the right to manage it as he sees fit on his land. Man vs. apex predators (and in many instances mesopredators) in the US has been an ongoing conflict for centuries. Arguments both ways are right as much as they're wrong.

Are you the former Ski posting Covid Nazi that freaked out about people going to ski in CO without masks or vaccines? I know that posters name but you seem very familiar.

I know you're obviously a prop 114 supporter…

Thank you for your study on mountain lions in Colorado preying on Mule Deer and elk… I'll file that under things that are totally irrelevant to Texas Mountain lions in the hill country preying on whitetail deer.

Don't waste your time. Obviously you can move out of our state and still not think it and its people are stupid, but not this guy. He can stay in granola hippy land

To the victor go the spoils. I guarantee that wherever you reside, that you or yours took it from someone before you. Just stop with the holier than thou garbage. I've forgotten more about conservation that you ever knew, and operate my property accordingly. It may not be your way but frankly I don't care.

All I needed to say. Point is I even have wildlife to manage and do well at it without concern for treehuggers getting in the way.

Alright, this just has to be a troll now

It wasn't always theirs and to think so is very shortsighted, there was always someone before. Kinda selective like the Native American self righteousness when there were many warring factions, not just one big happy family like libs would portray.

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This Paradigm Is Why Texas flounders with Most anything Wildlife. What a short sighted and ego centric way of behaving towards nature. Just wow.

It was their land LONG before it was "yours".

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Same with your Colorado and the Indians. You should give them all your stuff, along with any of Their property you own.
Because it's Thanksgiving, I'll spare you the after photo of the feral shepherd x that was after a new born calf this week…

This thread took an interesting turn.

More cat talk and less commune chatter, please.