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Message: <blockquote data-quote="badland mule" data-source="post: 84023" data-attributes="member: 318">I went to the one in Bismarck last night. Stephanie Tucker is a very good speaker and I found her presentation to be informative.Basically they are explaining what they know about the ND population based on examining the ones that have been killed and their own studys. Jeb Williams flat out said they are holding these meetings so it doesn't come as a total shock to the public when the quota is lowered. The survival rate of the ones they had collard was 42%. Stephanie said that they need a survival rate of 70% to be sustainable. Be sure to ask what the total number of cats currently collared is (4).  Also ask if she knows what the population of lions is (she said she doesn't know and doesn"t need to know to properly manage them because they can tell the trends of population by using the ages of the cats that are killed).I also learned that they believe that the breeding area is small. At first they assumed that it was all of the badlands now they think it is just the badlands from grassy butte area to the lake including the killdeer mountains. If I remember correctly they said 70% of their diet was mule deer and 9% was white tail with the remainder made up of small critters and other mountain lions and an occasional elk calf or beef calf.They want a sustainable population of lions in ND and they believe that there is enough food for them to remain sustainable. Their only limiting factor is hunters, more specifically hunters with hounds. I would expect to see a reduced quota for hound hunters in the near future.</blockquote>

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