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>> Just passed some road kill on Kingwood drive before you get to Green Oak and it looked like a mountain lion, surely not.
@Haybugg: pu-leese!
Bigfoot, loch ness, chupacabra are possible. Maybe even a leprechaun. But no way a mountain lion.
@chilladahun: There was one killed by a vehicle a few years ago outside of Liberty and report of something taking down a 200lb wild hog and dragging it a few hundred yards across a field near Shepherd year before last. Â They were definitely indigenous to the area at one point and their population has been making a steady comeback throughout the US. Â With the Sam Houston, Davy Crockett, Angelina, Sabine, and Kisatchie National Forests tying into the Big Thicket National Preserve and Trinity River National Wildlife Refuge all sort of right in our northern back yard it is very possible to have a sighting here. Â Take a look at a satellite map and you'll see that it's pretty much woods from here up through Tyler, over to Monroe, all the way up into Missouri. Â There have been dozens of confirmed sightings in the ArkLaTex area and if the population is increasing, it's not a stretch to think that a young male could make his way to our area trying to establish his range.Â
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