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Cougar taken by Hunter in Tennessee
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<blockquote data-quote="scn" data-source="post: 4157364" data-attributes="member: 1859"><p>No, a federal agency would not be allowed to do this with a wink and a nod from TWRA.</p><p></p><p>I've been told that there have been private groups illegally releasing cougars in the US. The info I was given several years ago was that it was primarily in the northeast. There has been zero evidence of anything along those lines going on in TN.</p><p></p><p>IMO, the sightings in WTN are most likely from wild, wandering cougars out of the Dakota gene pool. That doesn't mean that they came all the way from the Dakotas as some of those cats have been documented in states to the south of them for several years.</p><p></p><p>The ETN cat, imo, is a badly photo-shopped picture of a bobcat. I have zero confidence that it represents a wild cougar.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="scn, post: 4157364, member: 1859"] No, a federal agency would not be allowed to do this with a wink and a nod from TWRA. I've been told that there have been private groups illegally releasing cougars in the US. The info I was given several years ago was that it was primarily in the northeast. There has been zero evidence of anything along those lines going on in TN. IMO, the sightings in WTN are most likely from wild, wandering cougars out of the Dakota gene pool. That doesn't mean that they came all the way from the Dakotas as some of those cats have been documented in states to the south of them for several years. The ETN cat, imo, is a badly photo-shopped picture of a bobcat. I have zero confidence that it represents a wild cougar. [/QUOTE]
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