South Dakota Mountain Lion Public Opinion Poll

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Mountain Lion Management in South Dakota Analysis of Public Comment Larry M. Gigliotti Most of the public meeting participants (78%) enjoy having mountain lions in South Dakota, however, most (68%) do worry about possible problems caused by mountain lions (Table 2). The main difference between the public meeting participants and the high school students was that the students had a much higher percent of no opinion responses. This would be expected because public meetings tend to attract people that only have an interest in the topic (and thus most likely an opinion). This same difference was observed in the comparison of the public meeting participants with a sample of the general public and a sample of Black Hills deer hunters (Table 3). Most of the public meeting participants (78%) support having a mountain lion season (Table 4). The high school student sample also had high support for a mountain lion season (64%) although about 19% were neutral compared to only 2% of the public meeting participants. Overall, support for a mountain lion season was high for all samples surveyed (Table 5). Overall, about two-thirds of the public meeting participants and resident Black Hills deer hunters had some level of interest in hunting mountain lions in South Dakota with about 40% being very interested (Table 6). Most participants evaluated the public meetings as good (36%) to excellent (53%) (Table 7). Also, many participants provided very positive comments concerning the public meetings. (Good job John Kanta!) Males comprised about 78% of the public meeting participants that completed the mountain lion opinion survey (87% of the students that completed the mountain lion opinion survey were male) (Table 8). Mean age of the public meeting participants that completed the mountain lion opinion survey was 53.9 years (mean age of the students that completed the mountain lion opinion survey was 16.2 years) (Table 9). 2
Mountain Lion Management in South Dakota Analysis of Public Comment Larry M. Gigliotti Table 2. General attitude toward mountain lions in South Dakota comparing participants at the mountain lion public meetings with a sample of students from the Stevens High School in Rapid City. Attitude towards Mountain Lions in South Meeting High School Dakota Participants Students Number Percent Number Percent I enjoy having mountain lions AND I do not worry about problems they may cause. I enjoy having mountain lions BUT I do 116 32.1% 27 31.0% worry about problems they may cause. I do not enjoy having mountain lions AND I 167 46.3% 30 34.5% do worry about problems they may cause. I do not enjoy having mountain lions BUT I 77 21.3% 8 9.2% do not worry about problems they may cause. I have no particular feelings about mountain 0 0.0% 0 0.0% lions regardless of problems caused or not caused by them 1 0.3% 22 25.3% Total 361 100% 87 100% Enjoy mountain lions SUMMARY RESULTS 283 78.4% 57 65.5% Do not enjoy mountain lions 77 21.3% 8 9.2% No opinion 1 0.3% 22 25.3% Worry about problems caused by lions 244 67.6% 38 43.7% Do not worry about problems caused by lions 116 32.1% 27 31.0% No opinion 1 0.3% 22 25.3% 3
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