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January 11, 2012
Cougar Season Coming to Nebraska?
--Chad Love
Field & Stream’s Wild Chef extraordinaire, David Draper, has blogged about some pretty non-mainstream fare in the past, but might we soon be seeing him top that by whipping up a home-state batch of...cougar steaks? Maybe, if the state of Nebraska decides to open a mountain lion season. Mmmmm, tasty cougar...
From this story on omaha.com:
Nebraska’s wildlife agency wants its ducks in a row in case it needs to declare open season on mountain lions. A bill introduced Tuesday in the Nebraska Legislature would allow the Game and Parks Commission to set a season and sell permits to hunt the state’s largest wild predator. The agency, however, has no definite plans to make big cats the target of hunters if Legislative Bill 928 should pass, said Sam Wilson, a wildlife biologist who monitors mountain lions in Nebraska. “If our research shows we can or should have a mountain lion hunting season, we will be able to do that,” Wilson said.
Thoughts? Do any of you mountain lion hunters have a favorite feline recipe you'd like to see David attempt?
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Comments (6)
My brother-in-law will soon be stationed at Offutt Air Force Base, Omaha, NE. If he can hunt cougars, he will hunt cougars. And his wife is an excellent cook!
Fresh feline in the freezer might be closer than you think, Chad. Cattle showing signs of cougar harassment have been reported miles measured in single digits from the Draper homestead. No kitty! That's a bad kit-tay!
Mountain lion is delicious! Have had it Chinese style with ginger & peppers with Don Thomas, one he shot with a longbow. Not unlike veal.
i heard mountain lion and possum taste like pork
IF this happens it will be about time! Reports and sighting here in NW Nebraska have been getting more and more common as more move in from the Black Hills in SD and a breeding population is starting to form here in the Pine Ridge. I love to see them on my trail camera but they need controlled like all our game species. Anytime you put a dollar value on an animal (tags fees etc.) it is usually managed better. A little fear of humans wouldn't be to bad either. Most that have been shot by the Game and Parks officers or citizens here where right in the front yard of a rural resident or in the a couple of cases right in town. To bad they wouldn't have been this proactive with the wolf populations in our neighboring states to the west but as we all know politics not science has ruled those decisions.
Mountain lions are becoming less and less rare in eastern nebraska too and lots of farmers around all have their stories. I dont think there are quite enough to hunt but for anybody willing to try it good luck too them.
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My brother-in-law will soon be stationed at Offutt Air Force Base, Omaha, NE. If he can hunt cougars, he will hunt cougars. And his wife is an excellent cook!
Fresh feline in the freezer might be closer than you think, Chad. Cattle showing signs of cougar harassment have been reported miles measured in single digits from the Draper homestead. No kitty! That's a bad kit-tay!
Mountain lion is delicious! Have had it Chinese style with ginger & peppers with Don Thomas, one he shot with a longbow. Not unlike veal.
i heard mountain lion and possum taste like pork
IF this happens it will be about time! Reports and sighting here in NW Nebraska have been getting more and more common as more move in from the Black Hills in SD and a breeding population is starting to form here in the Pine Ridge. I love to see them on my trail camera but they need controlled like all our game species. Anytime you put a dollar value on an animal (tags fees etc.) it is usually managed better. A little fear of humans wouldn't be to bad either. Most that have been shot by the Game and Parks officers or citizens here where right in the front yard of a rural resident or in the a couple of cases right in town. To bad they wouldn't have been this proactive with the wolf populations in our neighboring states to the west but as we all know politics not science has ruled those decisions.
Mountain lions are becoming less and less rare in eastern nebraska too and lots of farmers around all have their stories. I dont think there are quite enough to hunt but for anybody willing to try it good luck too them.
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