I belive that the Deer are being killed off by the riseing numbers of cougers. I've been reading about the decrease in numbers due to stress, land loss, desease, hard winters, lack of vegatation, and I believe its mosty B.S.    Here in oregon i've had friends say kill any lion you see, and I've said in the past No! there are'nt that many of them. I have studied alot about this and found in the last 100 years theres been no recorded attacks on humans. But now there starting to happen since dogs are not allowed to keep them in check. The numbers have grown out of controll and the deer are dissapearing at a alarming rate now, and I have changed my thoughts of not shouting one on site. I have seen in the last ten years the numbers going down every year. the story in big game.net  states the facts that are plageing us all, and mostly the deer, the number one sorce of food for a couger. elk are growing in numbers, and stomp down the roads with no problems being, NOT the main sorce of food for big cats, that could be hurt attacking such a big speices. so food is not the reason for lack of deer and the ones left are haveing mostly two fawns, due to great sorces of it and easy winters.  in the artical on   Big Cats Are Back   in this site states that Colorado's cat population is taking 150,000 mule deer from a total estimated population of 300,000 deer. Hunters presently harvest between 40,000-50,000 per year. In 1963 Colorado's deer harvest was 147,000 mule deer so the cougar has replaced the hunter as the number one predator on the Colorado mule deer population.   and theres more that I will not add or this will go on and on about how the deer are being wiped out by predators as there numbers grow.  rember the numbers where always keep down by the humans hunting with dogs. now that has changed, and the only way that the couger population is going to decline is by running out of food, mainly deer and unhealthy or dying elk or some of the calfs that are unlucky to get protection from the big cows hooves. facts are showing Me that the choise of the big cats are dissapearing at a alarming rate, and the facts are being over looked and not being taken care of.  so do you want deer, or cats out of controll eating all the deer up. I think its time to face facts and see whats really happening to our deer, and stop listening to the game controll acting like they dont know what the problem is. the only way to stop the slaughter is to alow dog hunting, and get things back to normal,  like in the good old days, that people are talking about,  when there where alot of deer   instead of asking where did all the deer go.   What do you think?  Are Lions killing off our deer?  What should be done?  Ect. Ect.     we need to act,  before We cannot Hunt the dwindling deer numbers at all.