First Cougar Sighting In Michigan’s LP In A Century: Patch PM

METRO DETROIT, MI — Michigan wildlife officials have confirmed the first sighting of a cougar on the Lower Peninsula since the cat species was extirpated from the state around the turn of the 20th century. A resident of Bath Township in Clinton County captured a picture of the large cat northeast of East Lansing on June 21 after seeing it cross the road in the light of his headlights.

State Department of Natural Resources officials have no idea how the cougar made it to Rose Lake State Wildlife Area near East Lansing, but figure it wandered from a normal home range in the western United States and Canada. Read the rest of the story here.

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