[dog breath]

More food, more abandoned and preserved areas, opportunistic territorial generalist protected predator able to travel great distances at night. Sounds like they are going to be moving even more into the East and Midwest again and there will be nothing in their way. There are some pretty inaccessible areas around where there has been strip mining, sounds like a made in heaven habitat and base in Eastern Kentucky. I wonder what the liberal folk will say about them eating the occasional child or yuppie jogger when they move into the game rich suburban edges of New Jersey. It will give, In the Eye of the Tiger, a whole new meaning.

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Here in California when one eats a jogger or a mountain biker people just shrug and get on with their happy little lives.

[FredZarguna]

They will not find their way into NJ from Kentucky, but from Northeast and North Central PA.

They have been sighted literally for decades in Tioga and Bradford Counties, and for decades the DER has been quoting the usual party line: "There is no breeding population of mountain lions in Pennsylvania."

But DER now admits, "we appear to have some evidence of a breeding population in PA." Of course we do: they have been trying to establish one all along.