I'll bet they'll be a good population of mt.lions in GA within ten years unless someone does something about it. I saw one in Meriweather county about 8 years ago when I lived there and there's reports every year of people seeing them.

They said there were no native mountain lions in South Dakota when I moved there for years even though they were killing livestock and pets and getting hit by cars. Finally they couldn't deny it anymore and said there were probably about 50 of them living in the hills. By the next year they estimated the numbers at 150, and the year after that they started a limited hunting season for them.