http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/06/24/ ... 214320720/
Well right there where Ben Lilly's monument is Pinos Altos in the Mimbres River Country some old boy they say got et, and buried by lion.
Global warming I reckon.....
Fatal mountain lion attack in New Mexico
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another version of the story
some fool may havre be4n feeding the longtails processed chickens!
from the Lqs Cruces Sun-News
http://www.lcsun-news.com/news/ci_9695540
click for comments and photo of victim
the comments are one-sidedly pro cat
Pinos Altos lion killed
By Levi Hill For the Sun-News
Article Launched: 06/26/2008 12:00:00 AM MDT
Click photo to enlarge
Robert Nawojski (AP Photo/Courtesy of Walter Nawojski)
SILVER CITY — Officers with USDA Wildlife Services have trapped and killed a mountain lion believed to have mauled to death a 55-year-old Pinos Altos man.
Dan Williams, spokesman for New Mexico Game and Fish, said the lion was caught Tuesday night in a snare trap set by officers. The animal was shot and killed Wednesday morning.
He said the animal was confirmed as the mountain lion seen near the Pinos Altos home of 55-year-old Robert Nawojski by search and rescue crews that arrived to search for Nawojski on the evening of June 19.
Game and Fish officer Jon Armijo took a shot at the cat with a shotgun loaded with buckshot around 11:30 p.m. that night.
The next day game officers followed a streaming blood trail that disappeared after some distance.
Williams said the cat killed Wednesday was a young, adult male and it had three or four holes that appeared to have been made by buckshot.
The animal was bagged and shipped to the state crime lab in Albuquerque for a necropsy.
"The state crime lab will try and determine what the holes are for sure," Williams said. "They did appear to be buckshot."
He said the cat weighed about 125 pounds and was trapped some six-tenths of a mile from a rock ledge where
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officers believe the attack took place. The ledge, located some 60 yards from Nawojski's small trailer home, was an area he went to bathe and shave, according to what family members told game officers.
The cat was caught in an area where game officials had collected scat earlier in the week. Williams said the scat was being analyzed to determine if any human remains were in it.
Nawojski was suspected of being killed the night of June 17. Autopsy results showed he was killed by wounds inflicted in a mountain lion attack.
Williams said officers continue to search for a second cat in the area. He said tracks found throughout the Pinos Altos area have led trackers to believe a second cat is roaming the area.
The information confirms reports from area residents of the possibility of a second cat. It is not known, however, if the second cat played any role in Nawojski's death.
News of the cat's demise was spreading fast Wednesday through Pinos Altos.
Gary MacGrumbley, co-owner of the Pinos Altos Ice Cream Parlor, said residents felt relief but lingering doubts.
"I think most people are relieved, but there is still concern that this could happen again," he said.
Jack Griswold had three run-ins with a mountain lion in the area, twice the cat stalked him. He said the news of the cat's death was reassuring.
"That will make a little relief in our neighborhood," he said. "We have all been walking armed and we don't like to do that."
He said the community is used to living alongside mountain lions, but never in a situation like this.
"The animal was really beautiful. I hate to see it destroyed, but that is life," he said.
Game and Fish officials continue to investigate accounts that at least one area resident was feeding the lions whole, raw chickens, which could have lessened the animal's fear of humans.
Levi Hill writes for the Silver City Sun-News, a member of the Texas-New Mexico Newspapers partnership. He can be reached at lhill@scsun-news.com
from the Lqs Cruces Sun-News
http://www.lcsun-news.com/news/ci_9695540
click for comments and photo of victim
the comments are one-sidedly pro cat
Pinos Altos lion killed
By Levi Hill For the Sun-News
Article Launched: 06/26/2008 12:00:00 AM MDT
Click photo to enlarge
Robert Nawojski (AP Photo/Courtesy of Walter Nawojski)
SILVER CITY — Officers with USDA Wildlife Services have trapped and killed a mountain lion believed to have mauled to death a 55-year-old Pinos Altos man.
Dan Williams, spokesman for New Mexico Game and Fish, said the lion was caught Tuesday night in a snare trap set by officers. The animal was shot and killed Wednesday morning.
He said the animal was confirmed as the mountain lion seen near the Pinos Altos home of 55-year-old Robert Nawojski by search and rescue crews that arrived to search for Nawojski on the evening of June 19.
Game and Fish officer Jon Armijo took a shot at the cat with a shotgun loaded with buckshot around 11:30 p.m. that night.
The next day game officers followed a streaming blood trail that disappeared after some distance.
Williams said the cat killed Wednesday was a young, adult male and it had three or four holes that appeared to have been made by buckshot.
The animal was bagged and shipped to the state crime lab in Albuquerque for a necropsy.
"The state crime lab will try and determine what the holes are for sure," Williams said. "They did appear to be buckshot."
He said the cat weighed about 125 pounds and was trapped some six-tenths of a mile from a rock ledge where
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officers believe the attack took place. The ledge, located some 60 yards from Nawojski's small trailer home, was an area he went to bathe and shave, according to what family members told game officers.
The cat was caught in an area where game officials had collected scat earlier in the week. Williams said the scat was being analyzed to determine if any human remains were in it.
Nawojski was suspected of being killed the night of June 17. Autopsy results showed he was killed by wounds inflicted in a mountain lion attack.
Williams said officers continue to search for a second cat in the area. He said tracks found throughout the Pinos Altos area have led trackers to believe a second cat is roaming the area.
The information confirms reports from area residents of the possibility of a second cat. It is not known, however, if the second cat played any role in Nawojski's death.
News of the cat's demise was spreading fast Wednesday through Pinos Altos.
Gary MacGrumbley, co-owner of the Pinos Altos Ice Cream Parlor, said residents felt relief but lingering doubts.
"I think most people are relieved, but there is still concern that this could happen again," he said.
Jack Griswold had three run-ins with a mountain lion in the area, twice the cat stalked him. He said the news of the cat's death was reassuring.
"That will make a little relief in our neighborhood," he said. "We have all been walking armed and we don't like to do that."
He said the community is used to living alongside mountain lions, but never in a situation like this.
"The animal was really beautiful. I hate to see it destroyed, but that is life," he said.
Game and Fish officials continue to investigate accounts that at least one area resident was feeding the lions whole, raw chickens, which could have lessened the animal's fear of humans.
Levi Hill writes for the Silver City Sun-News, a member of the Texas-New Mexico Newspapers partnership. He can be reached at lhill@scsun-news.com
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