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Court allows cougar management to continue in Arizona (11/25/2002)
A federal court has confirmed the U.S. Forest Service may
authorize the taking of mountain lions to protect livestock on an
Arizona Wilderness Area.
On October 31, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals ruled that the Forest Service and the Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service (APHIS) may respond to rancher complaints of mountain
lions regularly killing cattle that graze on the Santa Teresa Wilderness
Area by destroying the culprits.
In February, the environmental group Forest
Guardians filed suit against the Forest Service and APHIS for killing
six cougar between July 1997 and March 1999.
The group argued that the Forest Service and APHIS did not
conduct the proper environmental studies and did not have authorization
for the killings under current guidelines.
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