You said the big phrase "With that said once established they should be managed like any other game animal." this will not happen in the near future. We have a certain party who run the state that protect apex predators or "animals" with the intent to eliminate deer and elk to allow regrowth of "endangered resident flowers and grasses." 2 years ago the mountain lion was listed as a thriving species in the state of California which California themselves published in a biology report. Ironically after 3 confirmed mountain lion attacks in California; California republished the biology report with no explanation into the study and upsetting enough the claimed that the mountain lion numbers were drastically low! I'm not sure about anyone else who study these apex predators but its upsetting when you try and contact the authors of these reports and they act like they have no clue what you are taking about.