[muir_redwoods]

Actually what happened as my wife an I were driving on the country road where live and sawza large cat cross the road 75 feet ahead of us. She pulled up a picture of a bobcat on her iPhone and it didn’t match what we saw. We pulled up a mountain lion and it was a dead match for what we both saw. We called the Tolland Ct state police barracks and reported it. The dispatcher said thanks and hung up. No report as to where the cat was sighted was taken. Three or four other reports were made in the two weeks around our report but the official denials persist. I don’t knowcwhy it’s important to them to deny the evidence.

[Reily]

From a friend who is a WV DNR officer, if they acknowledged there was an Eastern Cougar in WV, then the state DNR would have to go and do a population assay. That's hard, time consuming and extremely expensive better to deny until absolutely forced to do it, then the Federals might supply money and manpower.