They don't deny mountain lions in Michigan. They are skeptical of so called proof or sightings. Your claim that only mountain lions cover their kill is also false. Which only proves why the DNR is skeptical.

i seen big cat nrear rogers city mi

They been in mio mich for 30 years , dnr you lie just like fjb😮

Don't bears do the same thing?

My brother in law had one on trail cam last year in Charleviox county.

I saw a mountain lion cub run right alongside of me in Glen Arbor, MI.

Cute

We measured the pic a friend had, with markers for length. It was taken on his bait pile. It was hunting bait piles. Ten feet, with tail. Six feet 200# plus. WELL fed. Turkeys came back, predators followed. Stay alert. They know yer there, and you know their out there. Watch your pets. And kids. opportunists, ya know? Location? Kent County.

my dad and I saw one cross 7 mile rd up in Irons back in 2008... CAN'T convince me there are none

Saw one standing right in the middle of the road near Torch Lake Village in 1975. DNR blew me off back then too. Now live in Missouri & it's the same denial here. No matter how many pictures & roadkills.

About 5 years ago, I saw a large cat with a long tail run across M33 near rose city. I'm quick to laugh at folks who see shadows and claim it is bigfoot, but I clearly saw this animals long tail trailing behind as it cleared the road clearing in 4-5 strides.

I wouldn’t be surprised. They denied the existence of them in the UP forever. They recently had to admit they are there because of that video of the cougar eating the deer. Wolves are down here too! Someone recently shot one in the Battle Creek Area because they thought it was a coyote.

I live in mid Michigan and we had one in our back yard 6 feet from the house mind you. That was February 2023 and in late summer one was sighted 12 miles away. But there have been stories for years , some come with photo evidence. And still the authorities deny they are here. One would think that they should be educating people how to act if or when they encounter a cougar. Instead of sticking their collective heads in the sand.

Bears and wolves have now made it to southern michigan...

Though DNR has not wanted to fully commit to cougar existence here in the N Lower they outright contradict themselves by hanging “cougar warning” signs on the trails at Sleeping Bear Dunes.

I saw this short and have to report that this spring my granddaughter was charge by a couger in Monroe county.. When I tried to report it to DNR 4 different people told me that there maybe mountain lions in the UP but they definitely don't den in the lower. To which I informed them that just a few yrs ago the DNR corden off a den site within a mile of my home. I finally was connected to DNR biologist for Monroe county. He wanted time stamped trail camera proof. What a bunch of slackers. There are 3 rivers that converge nearby with miles of woodlands. Keep an eye on your children and pets. I've also have a home 200 hundred miles north where DNR finished off one hit by a car.

I grew up in the Sault and in 1990 I was riding my bike home with a stringer of fish and a mountain lion ran across the road in front of me about 20' away. It stopped for a moment and stared at me then walked away. I called the DNR when I got home to report it and the lady I spoke to said "Officially there are no mountain lions in Michigan, unofficially we know they are here.

Bears hide their kill like that too!

esta muy bueno el sistema y fuerte lo único,me parece que si querés pintarlo,se rayaría

Canadian fires driving them south???????? Hola from Frenchtown, MI

Northern wisco here, we've been seeing them for decades, dnr says we still don't have a population, they are just "passing through" whatever!

I saw one on Big Stone Lake Road near the Hersey Evart town lineon May 8th glad to know I wasnt seeing things. It was right before dusk and 3 deer ran across the road and the mountain lion was about 100 yards behind them. Im orginally from N.H. and the same thing goes on with the Fish and Game Department there. Too many people have seen them there in Michigan and New Hampshire.

I live in Cadillac Michigan back and 1996 had a cougar walk across our back twenty acres in broad daylight we lived a 1/4 mile from a veterinarian office we called them to see if they had a cougar that escaped from their facility they said no.

Same thing U.P. here. Cats are pictured....and NOPE...there are none here! This was taken in Toivola... kzbin.info/www/bejne/nqTTlnaEnNdjiJo&ab_channel=MLive The kid probably walked through several times and the cat thought 'Snack??'...oops...it's a Cougar...but still...

I see them all the time in Benzie and Manistee Counties

I've always viewed things the same as your wife does, I would consider you the 0th generation. Although you earned citizenship, you are always the immigrant and your children will be the first generation. Perhaps this is the traditional view among Americans. Also, I count immigrant generations from the paternal line of a child, much like naming conventions of a surname.

Of course they are. It's wildlife that's been here for eons. Just be watching your back when out in the woods. And I'm glad the DNR says that.

Black bear bury their prey.

Kittehs are everywhere 😮

DNR no longer denies this. And it's been since before your video.

What's the DNRs issue? And now a grey wolf shot in Calhoun County.

Last October I saw a cougar walk across my yard in broad daylight in Hersey Michigan. It walked up to a ridge in my backyard and then there was another one following it. They were stalking a deer in my yard. Not one but two! I was too shocked and caught off guard to get a pic of the one in the yard. By the time I got my phone/camera they were on the ridge behind some trees. I have a video but it is not very good quality. The sun was shining at me and my filming was shaky, but you can see their profiles. You can tell by the way they walked that they were big cats! I have seen bobcats too, but these were not bobcats! I also got a pic of a track. Sent everything I have to the DNR twice, and they won’t even call me back. I’m convinced they don’t want to know. Maybe it will make too much work for them!🤷🏻‍♀️

You can come to the cookout anytime lol

There were sightings in mackinaw city 3 years ago

The Michigan DNR finally giving in and changing tune. They have confirmed 14 mountain lions but assures they are not breeding. Deny, deny, deny then lie, lie, lie is their approach to these things. They said same thing about people reporting the wolves in the UP. They assured they were NOT there until they couldn’t deny anymore with all the game cam pictures. Then it became wolfs don’t eat deer they mainly focus on rabbits and beavers. I’ve lost all respect for the DNR administration, not the field officers but the agency itself.

The DNR planted them, but they deny it they think we’re stupid. How the hell can they deny it when you find a dead one with a collar

Worried about the Chinese government watching your bum ass through a tiktok yet makes a youtube, sounds about right

Yeah I’m sure the parasites love you

My dad always hunted near Tower. One year he was hunting over by the Red Bridge (near Black Lake) and he and grandpa swore they saw one back in the 70’s while out hunting. I never doubting them but wish I could see one to. A few years ago I saw one while we were driving back down state. We were on 33 and it was just starting to get dark and saw 1 just south of Atlanta

Michigan dnr is full of grade A monkey crap

I found winter 2022 in Jackson County Michigan some cougar feces, tracks, and kills on a huge wetland i hike in. Cougars also pull the carcass into some trees. My two neighbors saw one on their game camera. DNR came and picked up one hit by a car too in lansing michigan.

The bones look too clean to be resently. Not saying it's not mountain lion kill. There are lions in southern Michigan. A unmark dnr truck picked one up hit on M40 near Lawton about 12-15 y years ago. My son saw one cross our driveway. We lived way out in the country. The corridor along Southern M40 is called cougar (lane)? I heard. A neighbor could miles away, had one walk around his truck while he sat in it. I know of someone that had one in battle creek. Their house caught fire and they released it. It was spotted some time later. A customer of mine and her husband saw one in the field across from their home. The sightings go on and on

DNR does not any confirmed. They don’t say there are none +6 years ago they confirmed one in Clinton county in Southern Michigan so you’re a little bit off on that plus that stash looks fake in my opinion.

My friend who lives near Mesick saw one about 15 years ago. He’s an avid outdoorsmen and a solid guy. I believed him then and I really believe him now.

Bro I saw one dropping off packages at 4am in Rockford poached just outside of someone’s yard light. It was huge. I still have problems getting out of my car in rural areas. Totally different respect. They’re definitely at least down to northern Kent county.

Saw a mother cougar with two cubs in Branch County..

They have always been in lower Michigan where I had lived thought my childhood, but in low numbers and they are mainly nocturnal to low low light predators anyway who shy away from contact with humans. The tennessee DNR said the same thing but they have been spotted and on camera in the top part of Nashville and east and NE to kentucky. I have personally spotted two at night crossing the road in Tennessee on my way to and from work and one of them was partially melainated. Another man in Macon County set up a trailcam after some of his goats were killed and it showed up on the trail cam. A youth about 60 lbs. Now the TWRA is saying that they do exist in middle Tennessee but are not Eastern Cougers or Florida Panthers, but Migrated Western cougars.

I just cut a slab down to dimensional for a small project. Used a framing square and pencil worked just as good for my needs. Great info to get me started. Semper fi.

A few years back in February saw a black panther drinking water from the east branch of the usable river near Grayling. That summer before that sighting my neighbor showed me a deer 20 feet up in a pine tree.There definitely are panthers in northern Michigan.

I was out cutting firewood and followed one up the road into the woods got out looked at its tracks and there was little tracks so I immediately got back in the truck and I'm in lower Michigan Mason county