In April of '93 and March of '97 the editors of Western Outdoor News took the California Department of Fish and Game to task for underreporting mountain lion involvement in disappearances. University of Idaho Statistic Professor Kirk Trigsted conducted Permutation Tests on multiple disappearances in nine different areas of Ca. that clearly rejected that they were random events. In each of the nine all had vanished during timeframes and in areas that could have encompassed the life span and the home range of a single cougar. Letter from Marv Hagedorn Idaho District 20's representative, Regarding the information you have been putting together on the Mule Deer herds here in . . . SW. [Idaho] I agree we are selling tags for a product that does not exist and have been doing it for a very long time. Following his only conviction, the author and his receptionists passed polygraph tests disputing the three arresting officer's testimonies that he was at his shop the day in question, and had individually confessed his guilt to each of them. Moreover Warden Stegall in his affidavit claimed that the author signed the evidence receipt. However the document contains only Donna his receptionist's signature. Despite the conviction, which focused on bighorn sheep, San Bernardino National Forest's head wildlife biologist Steve N Loe, giving him the combinations to the areas locked gates authorized the author, on July 30th of '92, to survey the San Gabriel Mountain's Nelson Bighorn populations. California Legislator Bill Leonard after the author forced a rollback in D14's hunting dates wrote, "It is commendable that citizens such as yourself feel so strongly that you help bring about actions by government agencies"