Eastern Mountain Lion Declared Extinct

[2LaneCruzer]

Mountain Lions are pretty reclusive creatures. You will rarely see one in the wild. We walked up on one back in 1975 while duck hunting, it was bedded down behind the pond dam. You talk about pucker factor. All involved were scared $hitless. It ran off into the woods and that was the first and only one I have seen in Kansas. Lots of Bob Cats and Coyotes though. But even then you rarely see a Bob Cat. Tracks are about all I ever see. Now we have those **** Armadillos moving in from OK.

You're quite welcome. There was never an Armadillo in Oklahoma to my knowledge when I was growing up, and I have lived here forever. Armadillos are not indigenous to Oklahoma; they all immigrated here illegally from Texas.

 

[kcflhrc]

You're quite welcome. There was never an Armadillo in Oklahoma to my knowledge when I was growing up, and I have lived here forever. Armadillos are not indigenous to Oklahoma; they all immigrated here illegally from Texas.

We need a Border Wall between Texas and all points North, freakin armored rats

 

[2LaneCruzer]

We need a Border Wall between Texas and all points North, freakin armored rats

:laughing::laughing::laughing: Texicans I know call them Army Diggers. Man, they sure dig up my yard hunting for grubs. That's what I get for my aversion to using pesticides unless absolutely necessary.

 

[Redneck in training]

Mountain lions were wiped out about 100 years ago but apparently they are staging comeback recently. Our son owns several hundred acres of hunting land in south Iowa. There are several trail cameras on the property. He showed me few pictures of mountain lions from there.
We live on about 80 acres and have several trail cameras to see what is outhere. Have many pictures deer, turkeys, quails, foxes, feral cats, bunch of raccoons, opossums and one movies of bobcat. So far no mountain lions. I think there not enough of continues forest coverage in the area.

 

[jbrumberg]

There were two "legitimate" claims of mountain lions in MA in the past few years according to the MA State Biologists. I believe that they were migratory.

I have not seen nor even tracked (while hiking/snowshoeing in snow) a bobcat around here in a long time.

 

[95XL883]

Mountain Lions are pretty reclusive creatures. You will rarely see one in the wild. We walked up on one back in 1975 while duck hunting, it was bedded down behind the pond dam. You talk about pucker factor. All involved were scared $hitless. It ran off into the woods and that was the first and only one I have seen in Kansas. Lots of Bob Cats and Coyotes though. But even then you rarely see a Bob Cat. Tracks are about all I ever see. Now we have those **** Armadillos moving in from OK.

Sounds like my encounter with a KS cat. I needed to check a dormant quarry site in western Olathe (west of K-7). I parked my bike and started about a 1/4 mile walk to the material, walking into the wind. About 10 yards from a big row of rock, a mama cat and her two cubs popped up and bounded to the woods. At the edge, mama stopped and turned, staring at me. I was still catching my breath, the speed with which they move is incredible. I reached for a rock to have something to fight with it if it charged. (Not that it would have done me much good. If it wanted me, I was dead meat.) After a couple of seconds, it turned and went into the woods. This was late 1990's. I was much relieved. People have tried telling me it was a bobcat. Sorry, bobcats aren't that big and don't have long tails.

But a mountain lion is a beautiful animal in the wild. Their grace and power is amazing.

 

[MossRoad]

Yeah, that's been a hot topic in Illinois. They've been unseen here for a long time, and now over the last few years there have been several sightings. Closest sighting to us was about 100 mile south.

We do see quite a few bobcats in our area. I'll see one very so often, but never seen one on our property. Not at all the same as a lion, though.

A couple years ago we had the first bear in Indiana in over a century. It got about 3 miles from us as the crow flies. It wondered around NW Indiana in LaPorte county all winter, then headed back to Michigan. They ended up trapping it and putting it down about 30 miles north of here. It had become too accustomed to humans, and food from trash cans. Too bad.

 

[goeduck]

strict logging practices improved since the 60's now has Canada having more trees now than it did in the 60's.

Around here there could very well be more trees AND at the same time much less less timber. The trees are smaller than old growth and have much less mass. I think established forests with less trees but 6 feet in diameter average are much more beneficial than pole forests meant for harvest at 1 foot in diameter and so close to each other they choke everything else out. But I think the world is overpopulated and growing forever more trees each year to house more and more people is nuts.

 

[fortyseven2n]

BS on being extinct in N.C.. There have been many sightings in the Piedmont in N.C.. My neighbors saw one in their yard one night several years ago.These are not transplanted city people living in the country. They have lived in the country their whole lives and are know the sights and sounds of pretty much any wild animal around. If they say they saw one, I believe them 100 %.

 

[nybirdman]

You read that incorrectly. It didn't say one human life lost per year. It said one human casualty per year. Only 15 people have been killed by cougars in the U.S. since 1900. More people die from bee stings every 15 weeks in the U.S. than have been killed by cougars in the last 120 years.

List of fatal cougar attacks in North America - Wikipedia
You had better look up the definition of "casualty".