Yolla's have a serious cat problem!!!
I just got back from 5 days roaming around the Yolla's and having been hunting archery there for the last few years. Each year we've seen less deer and more and more cat sign.
This year while glassing early morning on a ridge we look over our shoulder and there's a huge cat walking up on us at 48 yards. We get up, make noise, and he just crouches down. A few rocks later he just slowly walks away not too concerned by us.
So we decide to go hunt another area, next afternoon about 5 miles from the 1st cat encounter my buddy drops into a canyon to get water and on his way out stumbles on a fresh deer kill, he stops to take a pic and hears some noise behind him, small bear coming down the tree. He lets an arrow go but misses, the bear heads down hill into the brush, when he turns to see if he'll come out lower there's a cat at 40 yards staring at him (smaller cat, not same one)so he raises bow over head and makes noise and same thing, cat just crouches down staring at him, after kicking rocks the cat slowly turns and goes into the brush, again not too concerned.
The areas we typically see deer are few and far between anymore! To say there is a cat problem is an understatement! My buddy saw a cat a few weeks before this, around the trailhead, again not spooked by him and ran across two other guys that saw 3 cats that same weekend.
It's too bad, but I'd say the Yolla's belong to the cats now!