2 mountain lions killed after counselor is scratched at Northern California summer camp

Two mountain lions were killed at a Trinity County summer camp after an employee was scratched by one of them Related Articles Midpen set to improve access to Bear Creek Redwoods in Los Gatos Mountain View cat freaked out by bully cat next door Jaws turns It changed pop practices and our perception of sharks First methane-powered sea spiders exposed crawling off California coast Two dead gray whales wash up in East Bay over one week A DNA test ratified that the second lion that was killed was the one responsible for the injury the California Department of Fish and Wildlife disclosed The initial confrontation happened on June the day before youth campers were to arrive at Bar Ranch in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest about miles inland from Eureka A spokesman from the state wildlife agency noted 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 reported had charged at him A DNA test indicated it was not the animal involved in the earlier situation and the state agency s club continued searching for the other lion A press release Tuesday June from the Trinity County sheriff s office commented a second lion was discovered and put to death and it was authenticated to be the one that scratched the camp employee No details were distributed 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 four of which were in California After the the majority current fatal attack last year s killing of -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 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 declared gutted the intent of the bill It died in a later committee vote Killed by mountain lions Details of five California attacks This file is auto-generated function d l use strict l querySelector d addEventListener undefined typeof URL d wp d wp d wp receiveEmbedMessage d wp receiveEmbedMessage function e var t e records if t t secret t message t value a-zA-Z - test t secret for var s r n a l querySelectorAll 'iframe data-secret ' t secret ' ' o l querySelectorAll 'blockquote data-secret ' t secret ' ' c new RegExp https i i i