Mountain lion spotted
near Winterset
This photo of a young mountain lion was take Oct. 13
by a farmer's game camera
north of Winterset. The photograph was given to the
Iowa Department of Natural
Resources, which confirmed the cat is a mountain lion.
the mountain
lion appears
to be a 2- to
3-year-old
male
to be a 2- to
3-year-old
male
that likely trekked into
Iowa from the west
Iowa from the west
in search of new territory.
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Such
sightings are expected
to become rarer
to become rarer
in future as South Dakota,
where many
where many
of Iowa's mountain lions
are believed to
are believed to
originate, issues more
hunting permits
hunting permits
in an effort to curtail its
mountain lion
mountain lion
population, he said.
The DNR has confirmed
16 mountain
16 mountain
lions in Iowa since 1995.
Most of them
Most of them
were in the southern half
of the state.
of the state.
Only three have been
confirmed since 2005.
confirmed since 2005.
Unconfirmed sighting
are common. Since
are common. Since
2010, the DNR has
received more than
received more than
2,000 reported mountain
lion sightings.
lion sightings.
Most of those are believed
to be an
to be an
incorrect identification of
a bobcat or
a bobcat or
another animal, Baskins
said.
said.
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2 comments:
In 2009, a snaggletooth bounded across Highway 61 near Y26 (btwn Muscatine and Blue Grass). I called it into the DNR, with no follow up.
I assumed it wasn't news to them.
Interestingly, the cat crossed my path just a few miles from Wild Cat's Den.
had to be the highlight of your day as it would have been for me
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