Daniel Richards submitted this photo to a hunting magazine, sparking a backlash that ended with his ouster as California Fish and Game Commission president Wednesday. (Image source: San Jose Mercury News)
The California Fish and Game Commission ousted its president on Wednesday, six months after he faced major backlash for shooting a mountain lion during an Idaho hunting trip and posing for pictures with the slain animal.
Conservationists and California Democrats alike had called for Daniel Richards’ resignation earlier this year after the photos emerged. Mountain lion hunting is illegal in California but permitted in Idaho and other states.
Richards, a proud big-game hunter, said he broke no laws and said the campaign against him was part of a sustained effort to shut down gaming in the state.
“This originates from the enviro-terrorists being threatened by me,” Richards told the San Jose Mercury News before Wednesday’s unanimous vote to replace him
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We’re the enviro-terrorists? He’s one to talk. Pin-headed prick.