Documented Mountain Lion Sightings

CK The 'stretch', I remember it well. The first time I went to Marquette, there was swamp on one side, and swamp and railroad tracks on the other 'tween Seney and Shingleton

Heard a puma was killed in the UP last week and there was puma scat (or as Turtleman says it "pooh-de-pooh" ) in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Park a couple years ago.

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HB I watch WOOD-TV8 and did not hear anything about this.

I'm 2 Miles south of M46 real close to the Gratiot/Montcalm county line.

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I were running through the woods I would agree - I have read of joggers being attacked on trails through woods. But I run on open well-traveled roads and one side road. The pepper spray and knife would not keep me from getting attacked, but it could be enough to keep me from getting killed in the unlikely event of an attack, assuming there were in fact cougars around. But still, no hard evidence around here. When I start seeing game cam pics (and there are these cams all over the place now) then I will believe. And right now, with sub zero temps and heavy snow, any such predators will be close to the heavy cover and deer yard areas.

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I do not have a picture of the one that crossed the road in front of me that I slowed to watch it climb a 12ft hill beside the rd in two leaps. No doubt it was a cougar. 2 days later a still hunting friend seen a cougar about 2 miles from my sighting. 8 miles away--One week later another friend seen one while still hunting---2 days later he got it on his deer camera. He printed and took the picture to the DNR office----they said "We do not have Cougars in this area". Friend said here is a picture. One officer said "Those pictures can be taken off the internet". They do not want to accept that Cougars are on the East coast of SC---20 miles from Myrtle Beach SC. I Know what I seen was a Cougar, My Friend with the Picture----I know without a doubt had a True Picture from his wildlife camera-------But his deer stand/camera Just happen to be in the woods and Not in front of the City sign----to show that that cougar was in Our area and I did not have my camera with me and I do not feel I could have gotten the one I seen to stand still long enough to snap a shot!

We moved to our property full-time about a year ago, and we saw a panther one night in March. We were coming home very late-after 2- and I screeched to a halt when I saw the yellow eyes in the middle of the road. I was confused at first thinking If it's a deer, why can't I see the body? Then it turned, jumped over the neighbors fence, and I realized the body was black or nearly black.
We told our neighbor, who uses the property for only cattle, when we found the huge paw prints about 3 weeks later. Every once in a while,the dogs bark like crazy late at night, and I just wonder...

There have been credible sightings in MO, KS, and OK. The one in Kansas had a photo taken of him stalking some deer that were feeding on scattered corn on a hunting plot of land. Also some dogs chased up a black bear too. What I'm wanting to know more about are the jaguars. I know they've been spotted in the southwestern part of the U.S.

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DNR arrested (2) guys for illegally killing the 'protected' animal.

http://www.miningjournal.net/page/co....html?nav=5006


Interestingly enough, this incident occurred in Schoolcraft county - the same
county that the Seney Wildlife Refuge I mentioned earlier, is located. Cougars
are reported to have a life expectancy in the wild of between 12-18 yrs. The
DNR claims that there are no breeding pairs (that they know of) within the state,
and while I seriously doubt that the cat that we saw that night so long ago, is the
one killed by these guys recently, it seems more likely that this one may be an
offspring of the one that I saw. Either first or second generation.

Fireman,

Somewhere in print I saw speculation that the cougars along the coast were drifting up from Florida.

COWS(also in SC)

They have Been here for a while. The one I seen was more than 3 years ago.