Two mountain lions were killed at a Trinity County summer camp after an employee was scratched by one of them.
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The initial confrontation happened on June 14 — the day before youth campers were to arrive at Bar 717 Ranch, in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest about 40 miles inland from Eureka. A spokesman from the state wildlife agency said a lion that was underneath a tent platform swiped the leg of a camp counselor who was helping to ready the site for opening day.
The counselor suffered minor injuries, and the lion ran away.
The camp’s owner, hunting for the animal, fatally shot a lion that he said had charged at him. A DNA test indicated it was not the animal involved in the earlier incident, and the state agency’s team continued searching for the other lion.
A press release Tuesday, June 24, from the Trinity County sheriff’s office said a second lion was found and put to death, and it was confirmed to be the one that scratched the camp employee.
No details were released of the animals’ age, sex or size.
Mountain lion attacks on humans are rare. There have been eight documented fatal attacks in the United States since 1994, four of which were in California.
After the most recent fatal attack — last year’s killing of 21-year-old Taylen Brooks in the Sierra Nevada — a Northern California lawmaker introduced a bill named after Brooks that would allow the use of dogs to chase lions without the intent of killing them.
The bill contended that, after California voters approved special protections for lions in 1990, “mountain lion depredation on livestock and attacks on humans dramatically escalated.”
The sponsor, state Sen. Marie Alvarado-Gil, and Brooks’ family objected to amendments made in committee that they said gutted the intent of the bill. It died in a later committee vote.
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