A apex predator that we don't need in Wisconsin.

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What,are you crazy?

Who wouldn't want to hunt a Cougar.

Stay out of certain nightclubs- - - - -they tend to run in packs there!
Jerry

About 30 miles north of my cabin. Hey Roundoak, did you get up there grouse hunting this year? The numbers were down this fall it seems.

The usual Fish & Game policy story ;
According to the DNR, cougars probably disappeared from Wisconsin in 1910, but sightings began again in the 1940s. Although the DNR has confirmed that six individual cougars have visited the state since 2008, the agency has never verified the presence of a female and doesn’t believe a breeding population is present.

It's amazing that they know every animal that 'visited' the state - takes some spectacular outdoor skills , all trained by BrentD ?

Every state needs these. WA, CA. NY, DC...... Transplant them in Central Park if you don't want them.

Just like red wolves in Tennessee- - - - - -"They're not here- - - - -but if you see one, don't shoot it!" My wife has pictures of the pair that raised a litter of pups on our place.
Jerry

Yes, we hunted around Prentice and number of flushes were down. Planned to hunt after gun deer season, but on second thought not going to.

Some really cool pics they captured, Wow.

We have an azz ton of deer, elk, wolves, bear, and cougar.

Don’t know how long the balance will last, but I do know it’s a lot more fun knowing there are lions and tigers and bears out there.....

yeah, here in southern Oregon and Far Northern California... we have NO shortage of cougars...

the three huggers act like they are cute little kitty cats....until one eats a local tree hugger...

then we anti Treehuggers are in love with the cougars for a month or two...

Wisconsin is within the historical range of the cougar... as is every state in the lower 48. Wisconsin has 17,000,000 acres of forested land. I think the state can handle a few kitty cats. The Western states do fine.

Bears, cougar, and wolves. Two that we are able to hunt, cougar and bear. Between the cats and wolf our deer and elk are losing ground! Bears are more plentiful on the wet side, deer and elk take a triple hit there! Long story ,short you don't want cougar in your hunting grounds!

Here is SE BC, cougars take down more ungulates than wolves, coyotes or bears. And we have lots of doggies and both species of bear.

"Although the DNR has confirmed that six individual cougars have visited the state since 2008, the agency has never verified the presence of a female and doesn’t believe a breeding population is present."

They're lying to you good folks, just like the MDNR lied to us, for a very long time they denied any cougars in Michigan even though there were pictures.

A guy I know was looking out his picture window and saw something at his fence line about 300 yds out, he got his binos and realized it was a cougar. He called the DNR and told them about it while he was watching it and they told him he must be mistaken as there were no cougars in Michigan.

After about 10 minutes of arguing about whether or not it was a cougar he said "fine I'll just shoot the thing and send you the head" he hung up the phone, Within 3 minutes the DNR called him back and told him that if he shot the cougar he no doubt would be arrested and jailed, 30 minutes or so later a DNR Officer pulled into his drive way and had a discussion with him.

The rotten basturds lied for a lot of years, I have no trust or faith in the MDNR.

Trail cam footage of 10 lifetimes right there! Cool as heck.

you don't live in the west... so blow it out your ass per usual GooseSchitt...

Lots of hound huntin for bears all summer long in Bayfield county.
Not a lot of them boys do Facebook but if they tree one I’ll hear about it

No they don't, dumbass.

Why don't you do some fact checking. Start with New Mexico and deer populations through the years.

You can always tell a liberal. You just can't tell them much.

Goosey, Just wondering if you guys actually had lions, wolves , and bears in your back yard , if you would think they are so great. If you have no skin in the game keep your opinions to your self!

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

+2...…...bob