The Elephant in the room: What can we learn from California regarding the use of sport hunting of pumas (Puma concolor) as a management tool? - Fig 13

(a) Mean number of deer per hunter (number of deer/number of hunters) for California and the 10 states with a sport hunt on pumas. Fig 13b is the change in the number of deer per hunter from 2000 to 2015 for California and 7 of the 10 states with a sport hunt on pumas. Data were not available for Arizona, New Mexico, and Washington to make this comparison. States are identified by their standard two letter postal codes.