{"id":2454535,"date":"2020-02-13T20:48:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T03:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/killing-mountain-lions-shortsighted-ill-conceived\/"},"modified":"2020-02-14T06:52:45","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T13:52:45","slug":"killing-mountain-lions-shortsighted-ill-conceived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/killing-mountain-lions-shortsighted-ill-conceived\/","title":{"rendered":"Killing mountain lions shortsighted, ill-conceived"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/facebook-thumbnail-1200.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">So, as more and more people pour into our back country, there have been more instances of conflicts with mountain lions. The solution: kill more of them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">How pathetic. How about better education of our residents and visitors as to where and when to hike and how to deal with an encounter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">It is amazing to me to see and experience the balance between people and wildlife in Kenya for example, where local tribes people and visitors can be side by side with so much wildlife \u2014 much of which can be much more threatening and dangerous than ours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Killing more is a shortsighted, ill-conceived solution. It\u2019s not so much that they are moving into our territory, rather we are moving into theirs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">John McBride<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Snowmass<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/killing-mountain-lions-shortsighted-ill-conceived\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, as more and more people pour into our back country, there have been more instances of conflicts with mountain lions. The solution: kill more of them. How pathetic. How about better education of our residents and visitors as to where and when to hike and how to deal with an encounter. It is amazing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2454535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 04:45:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2454535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2454556,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454535\/revisions\/2454556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2454535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2454535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2454535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}