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There is hardly a month that goes by that I don’t get referred to some story of somebody claiming they saw a mountain lion in Kansas. I’m generally either skeptical or incredulous depending on the teller of the story. For years the official stance of the KDWP was that there were none. The occasional sighting would be written off as an escaped captive cat. Until now:

A deer hunter snapped photographs of a wild mountain lion roaming in northwestern Kansas making the sighting the second only verified wild mountain lion report since November 2007 when a young male cougar was shot by a landowner in Barber County.

The last known report prior to these encounters was in 1904.

The rest of the story here.