I personally do not know if there are any wild ranging mt lions in PA but I can tell you that our wonderfull PGC loves to cover up any real prove of any being let go or what not. Last yr I was driving to Ridgeway PA in Elk county and it was late and I saw what I thought was a deer dead laying on the road. So as I normally do when I see deer stay laying in the path of the road I stopped to drag it off the edge. I am not Mt lion expert and not claiming to be but what I dragged off that raod wasn't a bobcat and sure as heck wasn't a deer. It could sure of been someones pet that was either released or escaped I don't know but I called the PGC and told them where it was excatly even marked a branch with a glow eye and layed it ontop of the cat. The next day i was courous so I called the PGC again to ask if they found the owner of the cat and this is what I was told.
You found a Mt. Lion ,in PA, lying in the road ,and drug it off to the side and the only follow up was to call the PGC to come and get it!?[:-]
So rather than have them meet you and show them, or drag it in to a regional office and lay it on someones desk as PROOF.......you drag it off the road and let the PGC just "handle it" and the following day you wondered "Boy I wonder what the Game Commision did with that Mt. Lion?"
OMG.
You're serious?
I don't know you and wasn't there so I'm never going to call you a liar, but do you understand that this is the equivelent basically of finding a bigfoot and then just calling a government agency to come and pick it up......"yeah bigfoot is right down by mile marker 57 I threw a branch over him"......."Hey what did you guys do with that Bigfoot yesterday?.....what it was a bear?"
Come on, everybody is looking for the proof , for the smoking gun, and you had it IN YOUR HANDS and drug it to the shoulder of the road?
You guys are killing me with this stuff.
I so very much like the ideas of unknown things running around (love those type of TV shows,) and I would never say it's out of the realm of possibility.By all means everyone please investigate Mt. Lions in this state! It's cool stuff.
Heck I LOVE the animals ,always have...........but somebody who has "Proof", please show us some actual PROOF........PLEASE.
What you "Researchers" need to understand in your scientific studies is that science by nature is skeptical. Don't research and report these things like a cult or some whacky UFO chaser who gets offended when someone raises the possibility that a 3rd hand report could be flawed.
Question everything and presentyour evidenceas a POSSIBILITY, not an attack because no hard evidence is ever brought forward.
A report from here or there or anywhere is automatically presented as proof in a firm stance.
That's not how science works.
When all other possibilities are eliminated then what you have left over is STILL not proof without physical tangible evidence so quit ,for the love of god, calling 2nd and 3rd hand "reports" and fuzzy pictures that could have come from anywhere as proof.
It's all conjecture and until the attitude and methods of pursuing things like Mt. Lions in PA changes to something that doesn't sound like the tin foil hat guys talking about crop circles on the back 40 at ol' man Johnson's farm......it's hard if not impossible to take it seriously.
Sorry. We'll (I'll) keep an open mind when it appears that the people presenting these things seem to have one as well.