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November 12th, 2018, 02:56 PM #201Grand Member
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Re: ARE THERE MOUNTAIN LIONS IN PA?
Especially with all the trail cams around these days, it would be very easy to validate a sustainable population in PA.
When I lived out west, cougars were getting hit by cars frequently and they left plenty of sign in our valley as they shadowed the elk population.
I think what people see here in PA are bobcats and because of distance or lighting they mistake them for cougars. I was flipping through my trail cam photos and saw a big cat that quickly turned out to be a bobcat.
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November 12th, 2018, 03:11 PM #202
Re: ARE THERE MOUNTAIN LIONS IN PA?
Doesn't this make Penn State look like fools when they chose their mascot? Might as well named them the Penn State Roadrunners.
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November 12th, 2018, 05:03 PM #203
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I've seen that ugly stuffed cat when I was at Penn State. What a raggedy bit of taxidermy that thing is.
https://news.psu.edu/story/158034/20...nittany-valley
University Park, Pa. — You'll understand if the recent proposal from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to declare the Eastern cougar extinct takes on a special significance at Penn State, where the Nittany Lion has been the University's mascot since 1904.
After a lengthy review, federal officials in March revealed their conclusion that there are no breeding populations of cougars -- also known as pumas, panthers and mountain lions -- in the eastern United States. Researchers believe the Eastern cougar subspecies probably has been extinct since the 1930s.
Many wildlife biologists believe that native populations of the big cat were wiped out by man a century ago. So the Eastern cougar will be removed from the endangered species list, where it was placed in 1973.
The declaration was met by resignation in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, where Gary San Julian, professor of wildlife resources, has fielded many inquiries about the Eastern cougar's status in recent decades. He wanted to believe that some remnant cougar population survived in northcentral Pennsylvania, or elsewhere in the East, but he knew better.
"Without some proof, the mountain lions here remain a rural legend," he said. "We never have had one killed by a collision with a vehicle or shot, nor have we even seen a confirmed track, DNA-verified scat or an indisputable photograph or video. We need to see proof.""A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself"
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November 12th, 2018, 06:16 PM #204Grand Member
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Re: ARE THERE MOUNTAIN LIONS IN PA?
Bull shit! I seen it. You calling me and everyone else a liar?
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November 12th, 2018, 06:20 PM #205
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Rules are written in the stone,
Break the rules and you get no bones,
all you get is ridicule, laughter,
and a trip to the house of pain.
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November 12th, 2018, 07:42 PM #206
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Any place 100% privately funded can more or less do what they want.
A lot of the places with state funding get local wildlife roaming through that are not actually cared for by the center.
It's common to have resident wildlife that spend their time on the premises but are not related to the operation.How can you have any cookies if you don't drink your milk?
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November 12th, 2018, 09:07 PM #207Senior Member
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November 12th, 2018, 09:51 PM #208
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Now that so many have hi-def cell phone cameras, no photos is evidence there are no mountain lions. Same goes for the drop in UFO sightings.
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November 12th, 2018, 10:30 PM #209Grand Member
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