You hear the new breed of today's mountain lion hunter's in Nevada whining that there are no lions left to catch and they need a good snow cover to find a track.  This is a poor hunter's excuse as to why they cannot catch a lion.  No snow and no tracks.

In the days of old, before snow machines, 4-wheelers, and two-way radios, there were men like Wiley Carroll who took to the Nevada mountains with his horse, dogs, and a warm coat.  I happen to know this because I was there.

Wiley Carroll started out his mountain lion hunting career along the

In past issues of the HUNTER'S ALERT newsletter, it was stated many times that being politically correct is hurting hunting in our state. Some examples of this: Former Wildlife Commissioners like Bill Bradley, John Moran, Clint Bentley, Tommy Ford and others went along with whatever NDOW wanted as long as it was politically correct. Being politically correct meant they did not kill one species such as mountain lion to enhance another such as deer.

The following is a 2007 winning entry from an annual contest at Texas A & M on the term Political Correctness. The winner wrote:

"Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end."

Reprinted in The Nevada Rancher, October 2008

At the Nevada Wildlife Commission meeting in Eureka held on August 15 and 16, there were two very important issues. Fortunately, one of them never made the agenda as it was one of the slimiest back door moves ever attempted.

Clint Bentley was chairman of the Wildlife Commission and he stated that he would not seek re-appointment to the Commission. Translated, it meant he stood no chance of being re-appointed. As Chairman of the Wildlife Commission, he appointed himself to six committees and chairman of five of these committees. (dictator?)

At his last meeting on June 28, he set some of the agenda for the Eureka meeting. Two committees were scheduled to meet at the Eureka meeting. They were the Tag Committee and the Wildlife Damage Committee, also referred to as the Predator Committee which Clint Bentley chairs. Because four of the nine Wildlife Commissioners were newly appointed, Nevada Department of Wildlife (NDOW) Director Ken Mayer chose to cancel the Tag Committee but not the Predator Committee. Now here is where it gets dirty.