Methownet BB

Keep your animals inside tonight, Now I know what happen to one of the Farrell cats on February 25th.. Take Notice to this and we will be having the Game Warden out to capture the beast and Relocate Him .. Just giving everyone a Heads up on this COUGAR.

SORRY... THATS POORMAN CREEK ROAD

Is that 2 miles from the turn-off near Twisp? Of course it can roam all over. I wanted to go up Poorman to take a look at the logging operation. Guess I'll carry a big stick.

Yes 2 miles up Poorman almost to the Poorman cutoff gravel road..

Thanks for your calming reply, Pearl. Mountain lions have huge home ranges with males typically covering 100–200 or more square miles and females occupying smaller, 35–60 square mile ranges They can travel 4-10 miles a day in their hunting circuits.

Mountain lions are mostly solitary and territorial, leading to naturally low population densities. These densities can vary significantly based on habitat quality, prey availability, and human activity. These big cats are shy and usually flee after being spotted by a human.

Deer species such as mule deer and white-tailed deer constitute the bulk of their diet. However, mountain lions are opportunistic feeders and will also prey on elk, moose, mountain goats, and bighorn sheep as well as smaller mammals such as raccoons, porcupines, rabbits, and rodents.

With warmer weather and so little snow cover presently, their natural prey should be readily available. Situational awareness is always important but 2 miles up Poorman Creek is really the natural habitat of Mountain lions and probably doesn't merit all caps or a response from Fish & Wildlife.

I’ll chime in here. Mountain lions do not take big game on a regular basis. And with so little snow this year hunting for them has been more difficult as the deer and no elk here can flee at a more rapid pace. Snow slows big game down. Hence the increased sitings for smaller game such as dogs and cats. Friendly reminder we live in their world. Not the other way around.

I have hiked throughout this region for many years. I saw a cougar once at Tungsten Mine. I was eating lunch and it wandered by sixty yards away just curious. I captured a picture of a juvenile male on a game camera on property Wolf Creek Road several years ago. I have often wondered in my sixty years of backpacking and climbing how many times I may have walked by them and not have seen them. One year we were in the Pasayten early in June. We were camped just below Pasayten Peak. It snowed that night . In the morning we discovered cougar tracks in the snow next to our tent, we had been visited. Bruce Herron Wolf Creek

Maybe it's cavalier of me to say, but I would consider it a gift if I saw one. Not so if it wanted to eat me.

I've captured a couple on game cameras around my place up above Alder Creek over the years, and found a track during the day on top of one of mine in the driveway. We don't have outside animals, so I don't worry about it too much, but I am cautious if walking late at night.

Bob