West Virginia is rugged terrain, and it has large areas without large-scale settlement. Mountain lion social organization in a desert environment, Master's Thesis, Univ. West Virginia Mountain Lions [Skip Johnson] on Amazon.com. Mountain lions, more commonly called cougars in the western U.S., are primarily found in the western states from Montana to Arizona. Mountains lions don't exist in West Virginia.

I tried to do a reverse Google images search for it, but it didn’t show anything.

In 1993, he wrote Woods and Waters, a collection of outdoor stories. Numerous sightings and eyewitness accounts of this majestic cat have been documented for years.

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… Cougar photo claims Va. sighting. These questions and more can be discovered on the pages inside of Skip Johnson’s book, West Virginia Mountain Lions. My guess is that if one is going to be found in West Virginia, though, there are far more remote areas than this place, which isn’t that far from both Parkersburg and Charleston. Some people claim to have seen them in the state recently.

that was spotted roaming in Wayne County, West Virginia.

This past September, the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency shared a trail camera photo of what clearly appeared to be a passing mountain lion.
The last mountain lion in West Virginia was killed in 1877 on Tea Creek in Pocahontas County.

Or was it? The last cougar in Virginia was killed in Washington County in 1882. What does a Puma (Mountain Lion) look like on a Game Camera? Mountain lions are known by many names, including cougar, catamount, painter, panther, and puma. a cougar is not going to risk attacking a horse as they are a somewhat delicate animal which I have seen killed by an elk if they choose the wrong one.. horses are too substaintial unless there are no deer at all around, but in your case I think if there are cats there it is because their food is ther. Mountain lions were fairly common in the Mountain State when early settlers moved into the area, and these cats were most abundant in the Allegheny Mountains.

These days, if you ask the vast majority of state forestry employees serving in the region, they will most likely laugh and scoff at the notion of mountain lions still roaming the hills of Tennessee or West Virginia; comparing the sightings to those of Big Foot or the Loch Ness Monster. the Eastern Cougar is Puma concolor, reflecting the solid color without stripes or spots Source: Public Domain Pictures Ancestors of the cougar (also known as catamount, mountain lion, bobcat, puma, panther, painter, wildcat, and ghost cat) crossed into North America roughly 8 million years ago, and the species Puma concolor evolved around 400,000 years ago. Posted! Sent! Circulating since: February 2008. Beowulf says: August 7, 2007 … There presently is no update as to the condition of the hiker. Description: Viral images.

Cancel Send. I'm hoping that I'll be getting more reports from West Virginia, western Virginia and Maryland, New York, and Tennessee -- all locations where there have been sightings. .
Four – the Virginia big-eared bat, the Indiana bat, the West Virginia northern flying squirrel and the newly extinct eastern cougar – are federally listed as endangered. The state of West Virginia is home to 72 wild mammal species. Experts in Tennessee don’t know exactly how many mountain lions are roaming the area, but they do know one thing for sure: at least one of them is a female. Every year, state agencies investigate many reported sightings of cougars.

My guess is that one would turn up in the Monogahela National Forest or some other area in the High Alleghenies, not in the foothill. He retired in 1992 as outdoor columnist and reporter for the Charleston Gazette. A link has been sent to your friend's email address. Post to Facebook.

According to wildlife experts, the mountain lion, also known as the eastern cougar, disappeared more than a hundred years ago. of ID, 1990) PREDATION: Cougars are ambush predators, rushing a short distance from behind cover at … .