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Self-Portraits Sought
"I’m looking primarily for travel routes so I can set up automatic cameras. That way, the lions can take pictures of themselves," he said. Carney explained that he buries trip wires and pressure pads two to three inches underground along suspected travel routes and then de-scents the immediate area so that no trace of man lingers. So farm, he hasn’t been lucky enough to get a picture but in March, 1978, he found the next-best thing—recent paw prints of a mountain lion. Carney made plaster casts of the prints and to date, they're his only concrete evidence that the cats do exist in the park.
Should it be proved that the park is mountain lion habitat, Carney is concerned about the reaction of adjoining landowners. ‘‘The mountain lion is a healthy animal to have for the environment,” he stressed. Lions would prove beneficial to farmers and orchardists, he said, by keeping the number of deer under control.
Carney admitted that a mountain lion will “occasionally” kill sheep or cattle but he maintained that the animal prefers deer and other wild game as prey. “I have a friend in North Carolina with three (mountain lions) as pets. He tried an experiment by putting filet mignon and deer haunch down,” Carney related. "The cats walked right over the beef to eat the deer,” he added.
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