ORIGINAL: DougE
I have to laugh everytime you say the PGC has ever denied the existence of coyotes.They've admitted that they've been in Pa since at least the 1930's.
Many people claim to see cougars in the winter time when snow is on the ground,yet they never find any tracks to confirm their existence.Last winter they even had a news crew in Pittsburgh where there was an alledged sighting.The tracks turned out to those of a house cat.A mountain lion does not have a home range of 500 miles.Young males will travel a considerable distance to establish a territory of their own but a female with kittens will not normally travel that far.You're not seeing the animals or their sign in the winter because they aren't there.
I have heard them say that also doug back in 79 when I first started to hunt. I remeber because it was my first rabbit hunt..My mentor while we was rabbit hunting told 2 wardens about sightings that he heard about and they said therewas nocoyotes in PA..
I heard it with my 2 little ears personally..
I just read that some cougars have a winter and summer home. (Just like humans)I also read without a consistant range of miles from few website that varied between 60 to 300 mile range.