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Mountain Lions in Jonesport?
Posted March 19, 2009
by William "Billy" Milliken, Owner/Broker, Jonesport Realty
Are there mountain lions in Maine? Some say so. There are scores of testimonies from folks who swear they have seen one. If you ask the folks at our state wildlife agency, they will tell you they don't exist.
There was a road-killed deer in Masons Bay a few weeks ago. The driver of the truck that struck the deer spend a great deal of time looking for the wounded animal that evening even though it was snowing very hard. The driver gave up and returned the next day only to find where the deer had died but no body. What he found instead was very large cat like track leaving the scene and evidence that the deer had been dragged from its resting place by a large cat. He and a friend followed the tracks 100 feet to find the partially consumed deer.
Last Saturday I got a call from my brother in law who told me his son had just seen a mountain lion further up in the bay crossing a large field. I quickly got on the phone to my friend who had been trying to prove the lions existence by placing bait and trail cameras in different locations. The cat had gone into a patch of woods that I am very farmiliar with, as is my friend. It is a long, narrow stand of softwood with open fields on three sides and the ocean on the other. He immediatley grabbed a bunch of his buddies and went to see if they could roust the cat out of those woods and take a photo of it.
Upon arriving at the scene of the sighting they looked around only to find that the cat had gone through those woods and had left tracks that led to a very large piece of woods. The cat tracks were huge, way too big to be a bobcat or canadian lynx. My nephew said the cat was grey in color, had a long tail and was about 120 lbs.
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