Posted on 12/21/2009 7:56:50 AM PST by earlJam
Hundreds of people in Southwest Michigan claim to have seen cougars.
Michigan Citizens for Cougar Recognition, a group started six years ago by local attorney and Van Buren County Commissioner Denise Noble, has catalogued nearly 200 cougar sightings in Allegan, Van Buren, Kalamazoo and St. Joseph counties. Add in Barry, Cass and Berrien counties, and total cougar sightings reported in Southwest Michigan jump to 412.
Allegan County had the third highest number of reported cougar sightings in the state, with 62. Van Buren County came in fifth, with 58. Kalamazoo County was seventh in the state, with 54.
Noble said Southwest Michigan’s large deer population and open tracts of land lured cougars from out west into the area.
“I think we definitely have a population here,” Noble said. “I don’t think it is that we have more cougars. I think it is that more people are willing to report and be part of the process.”
Reported sightings in the area date back to the 1800s, but the bulk of them have been since 2000. In Kalamazoo County, according to Noble’s data, cougars have been spotted crossing U.S. 131, in rural areas near Gull Lake and Climax, and in the city, at the intersection of Douglas and Mosel avenues and near Wheaton Avenue and Oakland Drive.
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Yeah, it is FR, afterall......... ;-)
This is nothing. You should see the threads on the Moro Islamic Liberation Front folks in the Philippines.
“We’ve also had a handfull of unconfirmed black bear sightings north and east of Jackson.”
And a couple of confirmed ones as well. A bear was shot by police in Battle Creek and a cub was hit by a car near Hastings. I keep expecting to see one in Yankee Springs.
Blame it on Rio was pre-implants for Demi, so she wasn't nearly so hot as she would become post-implants.
Yeah - our horses would make short work of coyotes. Especially Miss Jessamine with her iron hooves.
Big cats, that’s another story. So far, none seen in our neighborhood for quite some time.
The mods usually pull those. Hence we congregate at the cougar threads.
I, my neighbors, a nephew, and a brother of mine have all seen big cats (not bobcats)over the past few years in central Arkansas in the foothills of the Ouachita Mtns where we live. They seem to migrate through between September and November. It will raise the hackles up on the back of your neck when you see one in the woods.
Thanks for the pic,AAC.
I had a ‘67 XR7—yellow with black vinyl roof and black racing stripe that I bought used in 1975 for $ 750.00.
Had to sell in ‘77 to pay the doctor for the birth of son #1.
It had sequential tailights, and vacuum operated headlight covers that went thunk, THUNK! when they closed.
Loved that car.
Thanks for the memories.
LOL.....the most embarassed I’ve ever seen my son is when he found out that I was listed on his buddy’s online MILF page......he stayed home from school the next day.
I have seen a couple of nicely restored examples where I live. The sequential taillights are almost mesmerizing.
I can imagine!
Oh man, the puns are all over the place!!!!
(digging your tagline....I love it when Ms Franklin describes them as Hasidic diamond merchants).
Threads like this are often fun.
Indeed, the Blues Brothers is simply a good film and is one of my all-time favourites.
Ping.
That was damned funny! Thanks for that. Mind if I appropriate it?
If you would like to be added or dropped from the Michigan ping list, please freepmail me.
Certainly. I stumbled on to a vein of funny this weekend on a site that I lifted it from, marriedtothesea.com
The 4 legged kind have been sighted about 2 years ago crossing I 69 between Imlay City and Lapeer...But according to the government we don’t have any...lots of people just imagine them......
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