Killing mountain lions has long been state's role
The most charged debate over hunting ethics and fair chase in California since the mid-1990s is much the same as it was in 1996: How can someone shoot a mountain lion out of a tree?
In a similar debate that year, voters defeated Proposition 197 by a ratio of 58 percent to 42 percent, blocking a proposal to allow mountain lion hunting in California.
That is almost the same ratio, 56 percent to 44 percent, as of late Thursday of the poll at www.sfgate.com/polls, which asked, "Should Daniel Richards be removed as Fish & Game Commission president?"
