Elmo+Skeeto


 * Name:** Elmo Skeeto
 * Suspect?:** YES
 * Background:** Represents Gray area hunters and fishers, specifically from Parallel Park.
 * Verdict:** Guilty? Innocent?

Elmo alows mountains hunt mountain lions in the Parallel park. Moutain lions kill around 12 humans a century, while hunters kill thousands of moutain lions a year. Deer are a moutain lions food source, with to much mountain lion hunting the deer population has gone way up in the past 100 years. In 1900 the deer population was at 5 thousand, today the deer population is 25,000-30,000. When deer become overpopulated and eat all the grass and there is no roots to hold down the soil so the soil erodes into the water and clogs the gills of the fish and smothers their eggs.

"We are not responsible for the fish dying we always catch and realese." claimed Elmo.

Mountain lions kill the sick, wounded and old deer that they can catch and they leave the healthy deer. Hunters kill mostly healthy deer and leave the sick, wounded and old deer. When the mountain lion population goes down the deer population goes up and causes erosion that gets into the water and kills fish.

__**Final Statement**__
There's nothing more exciting than hunting mountain lions. What a beautiful and powerful animal! It's sure complicated, but I can see how too much lion hunting has made the deer overpopulate, overgraze, and cause sediments from erosion. Maybe we should cut back a little, for the sake of the fish. I'd sure like the fishing around here to get back to normal.