MOUNTAIN LION MASSACHUSETTS PROFESSIONAL

I relate this second-hand, so it is subject to scrutiny and certainly unofficial in every sense of the word, to be sure. This particular officer claimed to have witnessed mountain lions feeding on these carcasses, as well. The officer supposedly confided in the logger (who he had known for quite awhile through their Quabbin connection) that mountain lions had indeed made the area home, at least temporarily, if not permanently.ДЄpparently, in the winter, to help the resident eagle population out, the good folks at the Quabbin (and they do an awesome job) will sometimes put a fresh-killed deer on the ice for the birds' dining enjoyment. In one of the accounts, the lion cleared the forest road with one leap from snowbank to snowbank.ДЄccording to the logger who witnessed the leaping animal, the next time he ran into an environmental officer while he was out logging his plot at Quabbin, he told him about the cat. What struck both of these men was the way the animal they saw moved, unlike any animal they had seen before. These sightings were not related to me by city folks out for a weekend jaunt, but by loggers who have spent their lives in the forests of New England. From now on, I copy and paste stuff I don't want to lose to cyberspace!ДЄlong with the McCarter find, I have heard firsthand two reliable accounts of mountain lion sightings in the same area of the west side of the Quabbin Reservoir. I tried a search of the site, but so far have come up empty. With the reworking of the Mass Wildlife web site, the press release is now unavailable from the bookmark I had saved. Mass Wildlife had a press release from around that time confirming the McCarter find, but speculating that the mountain lion had been a captive released into the wild and not a native. DNA testing of droppings left behind proved conclusively that a mountain lion had been in the area.

MOUNTAIN LION MASSACHUSETTS PROFESSIONAL

Mountain lion evidence was found in Pelham, Mass., in the spring of 1997 by professional tracker John McCarter. With recent talk of restoring the gray wolf population in New England, I thought it worth reviving.) ( This is a copy and paste of a comment I left back in 2008 on the Outdoors Forum on.

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