Re: “Officials find, kill 2 mountain lions following attack on boy near Aspen,” June 19 news story; and “,” June 18 news story.
I was deeply saddened by Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s recent decisions to kill two bears and two mountain lions, in the name of protecting people’s safety. What about the safety of the animals we are disturbing?
The older I get, the more disgusted I get with people. We overdevelop, encroach, and tear down natural habitats to build more suburbs and golf courses and then get angry when an animal is doing what it has been genetically predisposed to do for millions of years.
One solution is to stop overdevelopment. We don’t need another strip mall. Stop building near wild natural places. The bears and mountain lions are searching for food.
We don’t have a population of a billion people in the U.S. There is plenty of room in this country, but far too many Americans are too accustomed to excesses, and that is a sad statement on our culture.
Walt Bonora, Lakewood
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