Posted on 05/19/2018 6:32:44 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
A man is dead and another was taken to Harborview Medical Center on Saturday afternoon after a highly unusual fatal mountain lion attack near North Bend east of Seattle in the Cascades... The mountain lion was tracked and killed.
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I used to work at night and was only able to see 3 cougars in twenty years. They are ghosts and by the time you identify the moonshadow is a cougar it is gone. Dep of Wildlife tracks sightings, and they are anywhere forests are. They have a twenty mile or so area, and the person that referenced the ban on dogs being used on cougar hunts is right, but the real problem was younger cougars could not get an area in the wilderness. So with the increased population pressure the young cougars started encroaching on more developed areas.
Northwest Trek has a cougar exhibit, and they can drop 50 feet out of a tree onto prey. They put barriers on the trees to keep them in.
Amazing predator.
DK
The “this is mountain lion country”. Just where the hell is that? A trail cam got a picture of a cougar in central Missouri last year. This is about 110 miles northwest of St Louis. When you go out in the woods it ain’t a petting zoo. Act acordingly. We have them coming into the city limits in Idaho. We still hunt them and they are not comfortable with us and we are cautious with them.
>here’s an idea, DON’T GO WHERE MOUNTAIN LIONS LIVE!<
I live in rural Western Nevada and all kinds of critters live near where I live. Including big cats. Seen them several time and was followed by one for a half hour while fishing at a secluded lake. Guess I was too old and stringy to be in the food chain. Sometimes I hear them scream at night as they hunt neighborhood pets. The coyotes are more of a problem. I’m just sayin’.
These animals range in teritories hundreds of miles across, not some small defined mountain area (despite the name) away from civilization.
In the article it gave the location of the forest roads. I think most of them up there have gates so cars can’t go on them (other than loggers, forest service, property owners, etc.) But it isn’t out in the “wilderness” by any means. And hikers/bikers/etc. are free to use them.
We get our Christmas tree every year from a tree farm about 1.5 miles from the road intersection commented on from the article. I did field work for a week up in the woods near Hancock Lake, also about a mile away. (Lucky for me I don’t work too fast - so I don’t look like a deer running along the trail!).
Heck - even at our house in a city east of Seattle, 5 years ago there were reports of a cougar that probably followed a powerline east out of the mountains, and then the pipeline that runs through my area. Of course the farther east suburbs that are right up against the foothills - bears and cougars are fairly common. We do have lots of coyotes though - owing to the pipeline open-space and a large forested park nearby.
Cougars can also jump 20 feet straight up from a sitting start. They are bad mo flixms.
They caught a cougar in the garden section at the local Shopko.
And they can cover that 20 feet with a deer fawn in their mouth. These animals are true athletes. A bear, elk, moose, wolf, coyotes, bobcats, badgers, and all these creatures live in the outdoor areas year round. Pound for pound they aren’t a thing to screw with hand to hand. Try to pull quills from your 55 pound lab’s muzzle. Remember he loves you. These critters don’t. Act accordingly. The quills? My wife and I couldn’t do it. Tranq’ s and a vet required.
Mountain lions are all over the San Francisco Bay Area and occasionally find their way into towns. You should check out the “Santa Cruz Mountains Lions and Bobcats” Facebook group. The number of trail cam captures is astonishing.
What do you call mountain bikers in Alaska? Meals on wheels. And the enviros want to reintroduce Grizzlies into Oregon’s north Cascades.
“We found clothing. Human clothing.” That’s a quote from a sheriff’s deputy on a search and rescue some years ago in Oregon.
Did you have a “did I really see that?” Moment.
The Monster in the Garden is quite a book about Mountain Lions & Libs, I encourage everyone to read it. I too had an encounter when taking out the trash in the pre dawn darkness at work some 20 odd yers ago. Two lions not more than 7 feet from me and only the loud bang of the lid on the metal dumpster when I slammed it shut made them run off.
Just over a mile from my house. There was a Cougar sighting by the elementary school a few years ago. They had a lockdown for it. Teachers had to escort the kids to the bus that day. Not sure how much help a 95-pound kindergarten teacher would be against this cat.
No one is trying to make a mountain lion into a joke. Chill SH.
Highly unusual...
Oh please
Cats kill...sometimes just for shits and giggles
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