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Mountain Lion Management in South Dakota Appendix C Larry M. Gigliotti Comments from Public Meetings Comments from Hot Springs 1. I believe that for successful management you need trapping and hound hunting. Change their title to big game/furbearer like Wyoming and Montana. 2. I think 20 lions are not nearly enough to bring the lions down to a manageable to a manageable level. I also like deer better than cats. 3. I believe the approach you are taking to this hunting opportunity is the best method. Start conservatively – change as needed. I will aggressively hunt mountain lions by tracking and calling if given the opportunity. 4. Season should overlap the “snow cover season” of late winter to allow the possibility of sportsmen to deliberately hunt by tracking on foot. Southern Black Hills typically has little or now snow cover in the fall. I strongly support the concept of a season that prohibits use of hounds. 5. I am in favor of a lion season. I feel we need to address a growing lion population. 6. I believe there are way too many lions in the Black Hills and there are a lot of too friendly ones. If they allow hunting they should let the hunters use dogs, so they can get some results. 7. I like the season as you have it set now. As simply a recreational hunter, without hounds, it provides easy access for anyone interested in giving it a try. I do believe hounds would be a more efficient means of killing the quota, but the goal is not just to do that. A combined season is the best alternative to have anyone hunt for the first two months, and then have hounds complete the quota. The data aspect of having a hunt may be even a more important aspect of having the hunt. 8. I believe wildlife is pursuing a sound management plan, and I am glad to see that hunting/sportsmen are involved. Personally, I don’t see hounds as a fair chase hunting method, but also see no problem giving them a time and place when other hunters are not out in the field. 9. I think the ranchers should be on the list to have licenses for the mountain lion. 10. We do not need large predators, that is the niche for humans, top predator of all. If prey animals need more predation, hunters are fully capable of doing the job. If it saves just one human life, it is worth wiping them out. Just ask the survivors in California, Colorado and other states. If it means having to eat more elk and venison, I’m willing. 32
Mountain Lion Management in South Dakota Appendix C Larry M. Gigliotti Comments from Public Meetings 11. Numbers of hunters on private land should be limited. 12. Need to harvest lions, should be trapped and/or hunted. Hound use should be limited, allowing trappers and game callers equal opportunity. 13. Use hounds and traps. Landowner should be able to get a license. 14. If using appropriate methods to determine which has to be hunted, I would strongly approve of it. 15. Mountain lions are an important part of nature in the Black Hills. If a hunting season is implemented. I would be in favor of taking only problem lions. The chance of killing a female with immature kittens is too great if an open season is put into place. 16. The “Black Hills lion unit” needs to be enlarged to include the prairie area neat to the Black Hills where there will be encroachment by the young male lions. 17. I would like to see the GF&P people have very strict rates on hunting these lions, and would like to see only the more professional experienced hunters be allowed to hunt, especially in the Black Hills. I do feel ranchers and landowners should have the rights to protect their livestock and themselves from any lion threats. 18. I’ve had four horses attacked by lions in recent years. Two were scratched up, one colt killed, and one had a rider who suffered a broken arm last September. Three in the last two years, and I only live one and one-forth mile north of Hot Springs. I considered this proof of a growing population of lions and a growing problem. My greatest concern is that children will become victims. We must cut into the lion population and make the survivors more fearful of man. I expect you agree and I would like to be of assistance in reaching this goal. I also think we need dogs to be successful. 19. It’s too bad GF&P has to pay the political correctness game with the public. 20. Kill the males so the babies don’t starve. 21. Any hunters knowing for sure the sex of the lion before killing so there won’t be only kittens starving or any kittens turning renegade. I like your Mountain Lion Management Goal. 22. Good Luck – sounds like it’s worth a try. 33
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