COUGAR 'TREED' NEAR SPOONER
Friday, March 6th, 2009 -- 1:58 PM
Remember a couple years ago, a Neillsville woman walking through the Listeman Arboretum saw what she was sure was a cougar.Well, DNR officials we talked with laughed off the sighting. They said people were always seeing what they thought were cougars, but there was never any proof.
Now there?s more evidence mountain lions are roaming the countryside.
A hunter with dogs treed the adult male this week west of Spooner in Burnett County, then DNR staff also treed the same animal.
DNR Fur-Bearing Specialist John Olson hopes to get a radio collar on the animal.
The DNR is asking the public to leave the animal alone.
The last known wild mountain lions in Wisconsin disappeared during the early part of the 20th century. The first confirmed sighting of a mountain lion in the state was last January when one was spotted near Milton.
That animal was later killed in a suburb outside of Chicago.
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