"The use of the word 'study' appears to be hollow and disingenuous - rather this is an extermination campaign masquerading as science."
"My concern is that the government that I pay into, and the conservation organizations that I've trusted my whole life as a hunter in Utah, are willfully creating programs that are destructive to our communities."
The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources has initiated a controversial program to pay hunters and trappers to kill mountain lions in six hunting units. This program, aimed at studying predator removal's effects on mule deer and bighorn sheep populations, has led to the death of 45 mountain lions since October. Critics, including sheep herder Andy Rice, express concern that this approach is harmful to communities and wildlife, labeling it an extermination campaign rather than a scientific study. Legislative pressure has intensified calls for culling mountain lions and other predators.
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