I won't get into wetherwild cougarsexist or not in PA.

I will saythis though, andwith all duerespect.To think any state agencystocked cougars and coyotes w/o documentation is simply wrong. Indiginous or not, any stocked animal has tobe approvedby law and an impactstudy and report must be conducted before any action is taken.We have hadcoyotes along in the east for over 50 years. In MA, they have been documented since the 1950's. My father used to see allot ofcoyotes in VT in the 50's and 60's while deer hunting.Yotes have been migrating into the east for a long time. And if we had them in MA in 1950's, I am sure you had a fewin PA by then or sooner. No game dept has anything to gainby stocking coyotes. It would be like shooting themselves in the foot.

Are yotes much more prevelantnow in the east?? You bet, and thats probably why you are seeing more of them. Your experiences in the woods can be a good measure of an animals local population, but in no way confirms where the animal origianted from.