COUGAR, MOBILE-HOME MEASURES FALL BEHIND.Byline: Marni McEntee Daily News Staff Writer Voters were rejecting Tuesday a ballot measure that would eliminate the protected status for mountain lions mountain lion: see puma. and open the door to hunting the animals. Voters also were approving bond measures for new schools and seismic retrofitting of state highway bridges, and defeating an initiative that would have eliminated mobile-home rent control laws. State Sen. Tim Leslie, R-Roseville, who authored the bill that placed the mountain lion issue on the ballot, said the measure was hurt by opponents' characterization A rather long and fancy word for analyzing a system or process and measuring its "characteristics." For example, a Web characterization would yield the number of current sites on the Web, types of sites, annual growth, etc. of the proposition as a ``trophy hunting Trophy hunting is the selective hunting of wild game. While parts of the slain animal may be kept as a hunting trophy or memorial (usually the skin, antlers and/or head), the carcass itself is usually used as food. Trophy hunting has firm supporters and opponents. bill.'' ``It just isn't as sexy to say, no, this is management. Management and science and wildlife biology doesn't match up to the visual description of trophy hunting,'' Leslie said. Proposition 197 would have required the state Department of Fish and Game to develop a management plan for the state's estimated 5,100 cougars. Supporters had said the plan was necessary to protect public safety, especially in light of two fatal attacks in 1994. Opponents of the proposition, said they had succeeded in showing voters that Proposition 197 was a thinly veiled attempt to reintroduce Re`in`tro`duce´ v. t. 1. To introduce again. Verb 1. reintroduce - introduce anew; "We haven't met in a long time, so let me reintroduce myself" re-introduce hunting. ``We're very grateful for Californians to once again want to protect mountain lions from a senseless sense·less adj. 1. Lacking sense or meaning; meaningless. 2. Deficient in sense; foolish or stupid. 3. Insensate; unconscious. trophy hunting season,'' said Bill Yeates, president of the Mountain Lion Foundation. Also trailing Tuesday was Proposition 199, an initiative that would eliminate rent-control provisions for about a half-million mobile-home owners. Park owners backed the measure so they could raise rates when tenants move or sell their units. Steve Hopcraft, campaign consultant for the Golden State Mobilehome Owners League Inc., said voters were influenced by a ``tremendous grass-roots effort and the fact that the voters of California can smell political fraud and are smart enough to turn up their noses at it.'' ``This means that mobile-home owners can sleep under their roof tonight and can expect to sleep under it a few months from now as well,'' Hopcraft said. Voters were approving Proposition 192, which would allow the state to issue $2 billion in bonds to seismically retrofit ret·ro·fit v. ret·ro·fit·ted or ret·ro·fit, ret·ro·fit·ting, ret·ro·fits v.tr. 1. To provide (a jet, automobile, computer, or factory, for example) with parts, devices, or equipment not in state highway and toll bridges The following is a list of toll bridges. Toll bridges are bridges upon which traffic may pass upon payment of a fee, or a toll. This list is intended to be a subset of List of toll roads. . Proposition 203 which would allow the state to issue $3 billion in bonds to build new schools and maintain existing ones was passing also. Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County would receive $10 million of the bond money. |
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