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#1934797 - 05/21/10 07:14 PM

Re: Why don't people believe that it happens?????? [Re: bowriter]

Boone 58
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#1935084 - 05/22/10 07:09 AM

Re: Why don't people believe that it happens?????? [Re: Boone 58]

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The Hatchie NWR is almost 12,000 ACRES. Little activity on most parts of it even during hunting season and NO activity on it (past the main roads) during the off season. I doubt that there are any trail cams down there on it.

Lots of swamps down there, cutover timber and still some mature timber makes up the rest. You take away the areas around the lakes, the power and gas lines, what few fields there are and the main road, then most of it rarely sees a human being.

Not saying that there are big cats down there, but if a few were down there and didn't want to be seen or disturbed by man, I think that they could.....

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#1935132 - 05/22/10 08:28 AM

Re: Why don't people believe that it happens?????? [Re: Bottom Hunter]

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Does anyone remember the story from about four years ago about the gas line right of way about three miles west of Hazel, KY on the TN/KY line?

Dozer operator noticed what he thought was a deer in the debris pile he was building. He stopped work, a couple other co-workers showed up, and when the 'deer' bolted from the pile, it turned out to be a cougar. KY DNR confirmed tracks in the bare soil, and also noted they were actually on the TN side of the line.

So far that is the only story near (and that's 40 miles as the crow flies) BSK's and my area that I will consider believing.

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#1935154 - 05/22/10 09:06 AM

Re: Why don't people believe that it happens?????? [Re: farmin68]

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Originally Posted By: farmin68

KY DNR confirmed tracks in the bare soil, and also noted they were actually on the TN side of the line.

Of course they did...cause everybody knows there ain't no big cats in kentucky!! $\:D$

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#1935160 - 05/22/10 09:22 AM

Re: Why don't people believe that it happens?????? [Re: tndrbstr]

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Over the last few years here in Iowa there's been reports of people seeing mountain lions and the DNR denied any sightings. They said there where no mountain lions in Iowa and people where mistaking cats and dogs for mountain lions. A lady hit and killed one inside the city limits with her car before they would confess that mountain lions are in Iowa. Deer hunter shot one last year out of a tree. Don't know why for several years the DNR said they didn't exist in Iowa when people had pictures and paw prints.

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#1935234 - 05/22/10 11:13 AM

Re: Why don't people believe that it happens?????? [Re: iowavf]

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Bottom Hunter I know two men who will swear on a stack of Bibles that they saw a black panther on the Hatchie NWR.This incident happened in the late 80's near Big Eddy.The guys were walking in to do some bow hunting and spotted the big cat on the river bank .

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#1935256 - 05/22/10 12:23 PM

Re: Why don't people believe that it happens?????? [Re: MIDDLEFORK]

Wes Parrish
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The below link is from a couple years ago when police shot and killed a cougar within the city limits of Chicago. Some interesting insights regarding why wildlife agencies may not want to confirm a cougar, as well as why most people never officially report their sightings. Most sightings do not get reported.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2019610/posts

Originally Posted By: farmin68

Does anyone remember the story from about four years ago about the gas line right of way about three miles west of Hazel, KY on the TN/KY line?

I heard it from a guy who works for the gas company, and that's almost exactly what he told me.

And I've heard several similar sighting stories, like this one linked below:
http://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/28/us/pawprint-gives-hope-that-cougar-presumed-extinct-lives.html

Or how about this one?
http://www.easterncougarnet.org/KnoxNews%20Flora%20And%20Fauna.htm

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#1935363 - 05/22/10 04:13 PM

Re: Why don't people believe that it happens?????? [Re: Wes Parrish]

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I've got a real good friend that hunts a farm in Hickman county and him and 5 other guys swear there is a black panther on there farm, 2 of them have seen it and all 5 have seen tracks

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