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Same story in Pa.

The last cougar was killed in the 60's.
Maybe. Or before and that one was an escapee.


We don't have any. PERIOD.
End of discussion. None, not possible!

If one is spotted it's debunked.

But then they smarted up.

"It is possible that one may enter the state during a
migration. Just a visitor passing through.
And killing it would be highly illegal.

Look at this state. Explain how a neighboring state might have them,
They might visit, but would never consider staying?

I know, it's the phuggin taxes.
They wouldn't want to pay our high fuel taxes.

It's insulting that they think anyone would buy such a story.
No wonder there are so many tinfoil aficionados.

There are areas of E Washington where I’d bet lion populations are as high or higher than anywhere in the country, and there are a metric schit ton of deer. Which is precisely why there are so many lions, and lions don’t like company. They get pushed out.

Eventually, if an area has the carrying capacity, I’d bet lions will set up shop.

Goosey is Gay and Woke...........He knows all.......

very common here.....

follow the migrating deer down in winter

right near town.....one deer per week per lion they say....

"cougar takes down a doe in Wisconsin". The same thing happens at least a dozen times each year within a mile of my house. Occasionally, one will take an elk. I expect to see fewer kills this year because, thanks to an overly liberal doe season, whitetail numbers are way down. On the other hand, mule deer populations are recovering somewhat. When deer are scarce enough, cougars will often make do with coyotes or, in more developed areas, poodles.
In the past 25 years or so, we have had two years where there was little or no cougar activity. During those years there was a family of wolves which hunted over about a ten mile radius with our place on the eastern edge of their territory. While they were here, the cougars were elsewhere. Most of the pups got shot and the adults moved; now at least one cougar is back.
When there was no cougar, there was a definite increase in snowshoe rabbits. GD

We are finally starting to see a few bobcats in the Central Farmland where I hunt and I would tend to think Cougars would be pretty hard on them. Bears probably tend to take a lot more fawns in spring than anything else around here and coyotes in winter. DNR refuses to look at trailcam pics from a friend nearby of a cougar, that way they can still deny it.

Where?

Dayom. 30 cameras on 200 acres. Can you imagine the time to check out all those pics.

Hahaha. For sure.

if they are managed....that's the big if......then I like having them around....cant imagine all predators being gone......bob

For those of you complaining about your states not recognizing that you have lions, remember, when the lions show up, they bring the feds and the ESA, plus a bunch of PETA types.

Never hunted cougars, but stuffed a few

There's a club at a motel in Nashville that's been known as "Menopause Hill" for years. The cougars who are spending their late husbands' life insurance go there looking for young, tender meat to pounce onto!
Jerry

Wisconsin USED to have a huge whitetail deer population, after wolves, bears and now Mountain lions not so much. That's what I hear from guys I know in Northern Wisconsin. Too many damned predators that the DNR won't let you hunt.

You heard right.

what kind of deer numbers are we talking about?.....bob

I heard insurance companies were importing them and turning them loose to eat all the deer.

2 million, a record high. Lolol
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.jsonline.com/amp/4192231002

+1

Ghost......I know..i looked it up before posting...….got a good laugh.....bob

+2...…...bob