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Hamilton, D.
Cougar Hysteria - Addressing _Mountain Lion Mania_ in the Midwest and the East
2006 Wild Cat News (2): 1-7
Some time ago, a couple of us from the Missouri Mountain Lion Response Team were in the parking lot of a small community high school waiting for folks to arrive for an evening public meeting where we were about to speak. Remarkably, there was already a long line of pickup trucks and cars way down the rural road heading into town, and we weren't "on" for another 20 minutes. Five minutes before we were to open the meeting, more than 300 people were already sitting quietly in the gymnasium (in a northeast Missouri town of 150) in eager anticipation for the "debate" that was about to take place. One gentleman remarked that this was a bigger crowd than they usually get for a Friday night high school basketball game - but they normally didn't come armed! We hadn't planned on a hot public debate, but they sure did, and two and a half hours later, we realized why.
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