October 24, 1970 (12 pages)

THE BEAUTY OF the magnificent Fish and Game Department. Mountain Lion becomes big gam The new law will provide the,the exception of northeastern (A reprint from Outdoor California) By JERRY. HARRELL Once @ despised outlaw with a price on its head, the mountain lion is now officially a big 1969 Legislature and became e July 1, 1970. The regulation of hunting the big cat— also known as the cougar, puma, on the list of “nonprotected" spe“¢ies, which many be taken at any time. In fact, from 1907 to 1968, bounties were paid by the state for lions, and at one time Jay Bruce (Outdoor California, March-April 1970). In 1963 ‘the bounty was removed for .a four-year trial. tions provide for an all-year season with no limit‘on the trophy game animal, The commission also adopted a regula: tion . prohibiting possession .of . live mountain lions except under permit from the Department of _Fish and Game—a rule designed to stop. the unsportsmanlike practice of "put-and-take" lion hunting in which a guide. releases a lion just ahead of the , hounds for a paying hunter. . ¥ a Fe Department of Fish andGame with a count of the lions killed each year and other information on which knowledgeable management of the animal canbe based, said Wallace G, Macgregor, DFG big game coordinator."When the status of the moun tain lion was discussed before the Legislature in 1969,"he said "we indicated that we would attempt to gather information: on the take of mountain lions through the return of tags for at least one year before putting further restrictions .on them. "Our information indicates that. mountain lions have been increasing since the bounty was abolished, but: we feel we should get more information on the status of the lion before making restrictive regulations." The idea of predator control has changed throughout the years. Today it is believed that mountain. lions donot harm wildlife populations, andthey actually .can help keep game animal populations in balance with their habitat. Jn some cases. where natural predators suchas mountain lions . : have\been removed and hunting restricted, the game animals -have increased to the extent that ‘source of foods. ~The mountain lion (Felis concolor) was-found over most of: the temperate North America,but is now rare or entirely: absent in eastern states, Some reportedly exist in. Nova Scotia anda few lions may: be found in the Florida swamps, but by and large the big cat.is now limited to the mountains of the West. In California. there are two species of mountain lions—the California (F. c, californica) and the Yuma (F. ¢. browni), The latter .is an. inhabitant .of the southeastern desert ranges and is pale yellow. in appearance, The California mountain lion is common in mountains and Jbrushlands all over the state with RAE mountain lion captured by Paul B, Johnson of the California CHP special Officer, John York, auto theft investigator in the Sacramento Zone II headquarters of the California Highway Patrol, works . in civilian garb in his detective ; activities. He and. his fellow investigators are concerned pri-marily with commercial auto theft -"theft for profit." York's confrontations are with. professional criminals. He believes, however, that he has an advantage over the men on traffic patrol on the road. "We know who we're dealing with -felons!" York asserts, "But the beat officers make the lion's share of the arrests because of their many contacts. We investigators are supplied with leads from the officers in the field and from informants. After careful investigation, we make arrests,"We have the advantage when making an arrest of knowing whether the suspect carries a gun, and we often know exactly where he carries it, or which drawer he keeps it in. And, we have another advantage: we take all. the help we can get when making an arrest. We take city police, sheriff's deputies or FBI California, the desertregionand agents along. We often take unithe coast range just north of formed beat officers with us. San Francisco Bay, where it is We take no chances. rare, It appears in two color "The man on the road, on the phases. the red and the gray, other hand, could bedealing with with gradations of these between. hardened criminals at any time ~ eee and not know it. The officer who The adult mountain lion may stops a truck for a missingtailmeasure six to eight feet from light may be stopping a load of the tip of the nose to the end of contraband. The patrolman the tail and may weigh from 110 never knows, when dealing with to 165 pounds. an auto thief, how many other They may breed at any time crimes the driver has commitof. the year, but most commonly ted. He may be leavingthe scene produce kittens between April of a burglary or a murder." and August. Since the gestation York says the stolen car is period is 91 to 97 days, thepeak often used to commit a crime, of mating probably.occurs durto get away, to travel, or for ing the period from January to ‘financing. : June, Recently, a commercial ofYoung are born with eyes ficer (a beat officer who specclosed and usuallyweigh about ‘ializes in enforcement of truck one pound, measuring about a weight and loading laws) stopped foot in length, They are spotted a truck for a routine check, with black markings, some of He weighed it and made his which occasionally remain check of mechanical safety dearound the -shoulders until the “vices with the driver at his side. animal is a year old. A few months later the same The young cats are cared for driver and helper were arrested by the female and accompany her. as part of a syndicate directed until. well over a year of age. A cross-country vehicle theft ring. year-old cat will: weigh about They told the arresting officer The DFG has evithat they had a load of contrato show that one female band beneath the tarp when they ; young. every were stopped by the commercial > over an eight-year officer trained on the unsuspecting trolman, The plan, the on their range. ‘the officer on’ the routine truck have . helper had.'a gua / “skull or .by. disemboweling prey, : CEs keys, chickens, grouse, rabbits, marmots, squirrels, .skumks, fish, bob-cats, and mice. Mounranges as deer and are capable of killing these animals, In fact, deer make .up a large part of their diet. The . mountain. lion usually stalks its prey to within a short distance and then. captures in a sudden,. bounding attack, It kills either by. biting the base of yes s BA Yar 8 « tA. said, was to kill the officer if. he discovered the stolen prop-" erty or showed any curiosity ‘Among. non-traffic arrests made by the’ California Highway Patrol, auto theft outranks.even — narcotics in economic impact. "Some. people think of joyriders. when theythink of auto thieves," York states, "They think of juveniles. Actually, there is one adult auto thief -one real pro -for every 1,1 juveniles who steal a car. The . typical auto thief is clever; he’s not .4 .punk, stick-up artist;.be . PELL ELL L LEE LE LEE PEELE POTEET L OP OCTET EO EEE CCE ednesday, October 28, 1970 The Nevada County Nugget, : 9 unit fights auto theft rings uses his brain." : It's difficult to talk about nar cotics arrests and auto theft arrests completely separately, because narcotics dealers are often also vehicle thieves. They may use auto theft as a means to get moeny to start their nar‘cotics operations. Some auto thieves set up. methadrine factories as part of their total criminal business. Auto theft is the.second ranking felony crime in thenation, in terms of monetary loss. It is topped only by larceny. In 1969, approximately 130,000 vehicles were stolen in California and 103,000 recovered. The loss attributed to vehicle theft nationwide is about $800 million annually. By contrast, bank robberies amount to less than $20 million per year. In 1967, for instance, bank robberies totaled only $12 million but vehicles valued at $93 million were stolen and never recovered that year. When vehicles are recovered, they have often been stripped or so misused that the loss is great. All~types of vehicles are ‘stolen. Although commercial rigs comprise only about 10% of the stolen vehicles in the state, they represent a*major crime — problem. About two or three trucks and trailers are stolen in this state each week, The engine of a big truck is worth about $6,000 alone, so thieves sometimes take a torch to expensive new trucks and chop them up for salvage parts, Although this makes detection difficult, it is not impossible, Recently a nationwide truck theft ring was uncovered by CHP, FBI, National Auto Theft Bureau personnel and police departments in New York and New Jersey. The accused slayer of Traffic Officer Ambers Shewmaker, who was shot November 23, 1969, when he stopped a speeding vehicle on Route 10 east of Banning, was allegedly leaving the scene of a robbery of a Riverside drive-in, driving a 1970 model automobile stolen in Sacramento. The youth who killed Traffic Officer Raymond Carpenter in Auburn, February 17, 1970, was driving a stolen car. Sit back. and let. classified ads do the selling, renting or buying — ee > LUMBER CO. TOWN TALK, GRASS VALLEY 265-4521. DOWNIEVILLE YARD 289-3351 Sh, Yas

THE BEAUTY OF the magnificent Fish and Game Department. Mountain Lion becomes big gam The new law will provide the,the exception of northeastern (A reprint from Outdoor California) By JERRY. HARRELL Once @ despised outlaw with a price on its head, the mountain lion is now officially a big 1969 Legislature and became e July 1, 1970. The regulation of hunting the big cat— also known as the cougar, puma, on the list of “nonprotected" spe“¢ies, which many be taken at any time. In fact, from 1907 to 1968, bounties were paid by the state for lions, and at one time Jay Bruce (Outdoor California, March-April 1970). In 1963 ‘the bounty was removed for .a four-year trial. tions provide for an all-year season with no limit‘on the trophy game animal, The commission also adopted a regula: tion . prohibiting possession .of . live mountain lions except under permit from the Department of _Fish and Game—a rule designed to stop. the unsportsmanlike practice of "put-and-take" lion hunting in which a guide. releases a lion just ahead of the , hounds for a paying hunter. . ¥ a Fe Department of Fish andGame with a count of the lions killed each year and other information on which knowledgeable management of the animal canbe based, said Wallace G, Macgregor, DFG big game coordinator."When the status of the moun tain lion was discussed before the Legislature in 1969,"he said "we indicated that we would attempt to gather information: on the take of mountain lions through the return of tags for at least one year before putting further restrictions .on them. "Our information indicates that. mountain lions have been increasing since the bounty was abolished, but: we feel we should get more information on the status of the lion before making restrictive regulations." The idea of predator control has changed throughout the years. Today it is believed that mountain. lions donot harm wildlife populations, andthey actually .can help keep game animal populations in balance with their habitat. Jn some cases. where natural predators suchas mountain lions . : have\been removed and hunting restricted, the game animals -have increased to the extent that ‘source of foods. ~The mountain lion (Felis concolor) was-found over most of: the temperate North America,but is now rare or entirely: absent in eastern states, Some reportedly exist in. Nova Scotia anda few lions may: be found in the Florida swamps, but by and large the big cat.is now limited to the mountains of the West. In California. there are two species of mountain lions—the California (F. c, californica) and the Yuma (F. ¢. browni), The latter .is an. inhabitant .of the southeastern desert ranges and is pale yellow. in appearance, The California mountain lion is common in mountains and Jbrushlands all over the state with RAE mountain lion captured by Paul B, Johnson of the California CHP special Officer, John York, auto theft investigator in the Sacramento Zone II headquarters of the California Highway Patrol, works . in civilian garb in his detective ; activities. He and. his fellow investigators are concerned pri-marily with commercial auto theft -"theft for profit." York's confrontations are with. professional criminals. He believes, however, that he has an advantage over the men on traffic patrol on the road. "We know who we're dealing with -felons!" York asserts, "But the beat officers make the lion's share of the arrests because of their many contacts. We investigators are supplied with leads from the officers in the field and from informants. After careful investigation, we make arrests,"We have the advantage when making an arrest of knowing whether the suspect carries a gun, and we often know exactly where he carries it, or which drawer he keeps it in. And, we have another advantage: we take all. the help we can get when making an arrest. We take city police, sheriff's deputies or FBI California, the desertregionand agents along. We often take unithe coast range just north of formed beat officers with us. San Francisco Bay, where it is We take no chances. rare, It appears in two color "The man on the road, on the phases. the red and the gray, other hand, could bedealing with with gradations of these between. hardened criminals at any time ~ eee and not know it. The officer who The adult mountain lion may stops a truck for a missingtailmeasure six to eight feet from light may be stopping a load of the tip of the nose to the end of contraband. The patrolman the tail and may weigh from 110 never knows, when dealing with

to 165 pounds. an auto thief, how many other They may breed at any time crimes the driver has commitof. the year, but most commonly ted. He may be leavingthe scene produce kittens between April of a burglary or a murder." and August. Since the gestation York says the stolen car is period is 91 to 97 days, thepeak often used to commit a crime, of mating probably.occurs durto get away, to travel, or for ing the period from January to ‘financing. : June, Recently, a commercial ofYoung are born with eyes ficer (a beat officer who specclosed and usuallyweigh about ‘ializes in enforcement of truck one pound, measuring about a weight and loading laws) stopped foot in length, They are spotted a truck for a routine check, with black markings, some of He weighed it and made his which occasionally remain check of mechanical safety dearound the -shoulders until the “vices with the driver at his side. animal is a year old. A few months later the same The young cats are cared for driver and helper were arrested by the female and accompany her. as part of a syndicate directed until. well over a year of age. A cross-country vehicle theft ring. year-old cat will: weigh about They told the arresting officer The DFG has evithat they had a load of contrato show that one female band beneath the tarp when they ; young. every were stopped by the commercial > over an eight-year officer trained on the unsuspecting trolman, The plan, the on their range. ‘the officer on’ the routine truck have . helper had.'a gua / “skull or .by. disemboweling prey, : CEs keys, chickens, grouse, rabbits, marmots, squirrels, .skumks, fish, bob-cats, and mice. Mounranges as deer and are capable of killing these animals, In fact, deer make .up a large part of their diet. The . mountain. lion usually stalks its prey to within a short distance and then. captures in a sudden,. bounding attack, It kills either by. biting the base of yes s BA Yar 8 « tA. said, was to kill the officer if. he discovered the stolen prop-" erty or showed any curiosity ‘Among. non-traffic arrests made by the’ California Highway Patrol, auto theft outranks.even — narcotics in economic impact. "Some. people think of joyriders. when theythink of auto thieves," York states, "They think of juveniles. Actually, there is one adult auto thief -one real pro -for every 1,1 juveniles who steal a car. The . typical auto thief is clever; he’s not .4 .punk, stick-up artist;.be . PELL ELL L LEE LE LEE PEELE POTEET L OP OCTET EO EEE CCE ednesday, October 28, 1970 The Nevada County Nugget, : 9 unit fights auto theft rings uses his brain." : It's difficult to talk about nar cotics arrests and auto theft arrests completely separately, because narcotics dealers are often also vehicle thieves. They may use auto theft as a means to get moeny to start their nar‘cotics operations. Some auto thieves set up. methadrine factories as part of their total criminal business. Auto theft is the.second ranking felony crime in thenation, in terms of monetary loss. It is topped only by larceny. In 1969, approximately 130,000 vehicles were stolen in California and 103,000 recovered. The loss attributed to vehicle theft nationwide is about $800 million annually. By contrast, bank robberies amount to less than $20 million per year. In 1967, for instance, bank robberies totaled only $12 million but vehicles valued at $93 million were stolen and never recovered that year. When vehicles are recovered, they have often been stripped or so misused that the loss is great. All~types of vehicles are ‘stolen. Although commercial rigs comprise only about 10% of the stolen vehicles in the state, they represent a*major crime — problem. About two or three trucks and trailers are stolen in this state each week, The engine of a big truck is worth about $6,000 alone, so thieves sometimes take a torch to expensive new trucks and chop them up for salvage parts, Although this makes detection difficult, it is not impossible, Recently a nationwide truck theft ring was uncovered by CHP, FBI, National Auto Theft Bureau personnel and police departments in New York and New Jersey. The accused slayer of Traffic Officer Ambers Shewmaker, who was shot November 23, 1969, when he stopped a speeding vehicle on Route 10 east of Banning, was allegedly leaving the scene of a robbery of a Riverside drive-in, driving a 1970 model automobile stolen in Sacramento. The youth who killed Traffic Officer Raymond Carpenter in Auburn, February 17, 1970, was driving a stolen car. Sit back. and let. classified ads do the selling, renting or buying — ee > LUMBER CO. TOWN TALK, GRASS VALLEY 265-4521. DOWNIEVILLE YARD 289-3351 Sh, Yas