Posted by Wayne G. Barber & Photo by Wayne G. Barber
This one I found at Moosehead Lake, Kamp-Kamp Indian Store Built 1893 Greenville, Maine.
Vermont’s last known cougar, also known as a mountain lion or catamount, was killed in 1881 in Barnard. In 2011, a cougar was hit by a car and killed on a Connecticut highway. Subsequent DNA testing found that the animal was from South Dakota. There is no question about it: cougars are not only being seen in eastern North America, some are attempting to recolonize their former habitats.
Where once it was flatly dismissed as impossible in the so-called “developed” East, scientists have now documented cougar dispersals and reoccupation of a growing list of eastern states and provinces.
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