It's not surprising the trail cams failed to catch one considering the home range size cougars maintain. Western cougars have been found to have home ranges as small as 10 sq miles and as large as several hundred square miles. One would expect that the more plentiful food sources and less competition in the east would tend to reduce the size of home ranges but the lack of available mates could mitigate that to some extent. In any case, they cover a lot of territory making catching one on a trail cam a very low probability. Seeing one is rare even where the population is much higher than in Indiana. I have a friend who has worked at Crane for about 7 years and though he has not seen one on the base he has talked to several people that have.
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Wife swears she saw a Mountain Lion Sunday morning in Perry County.....
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It's not surprising the trail cams failed to catch one considering the home range size cougars maintain. Western cougars have been found to have home ranges as small as 10 sq miles and as large as several hundred square miles. One would expect that the more plentiful food sources and less competition in the east would tend to reduce the size of home ranges but the lack of available mates could mitigate that to some extent. In any case, they cover a lot of territory making catching one on a trail cam a very low probability. Seeing one is rare even where the population is much higher than in Indiana. I have a friend who has worked at Crane for about 7 years and though he has not seen one on the base he has talked to several people that have.
Birdblastingbrad
Plinker
Not to hijack, but I got this on a camera back in February. Showed it to a DNR forester, and he just smiled and said "yep, saw his momma a few months ago in the same area"... Picture was taken in northern Monroe county.
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indiucky
Grandmaster
Let's kind of map out the route.....Hopefully an INGO'er can put together a map of sightings with dates and flags...
HK see's big cat on Friday in Lawrence County near the White River...Friday night massive storms come through Southern Indiana causing flash flooding throughout the area....Another INGO'er hears second hand that someone spotted a big cat just south of Jasper it seems Saturday...Sunday morning in northern Perry County my wife spots a big cat near the bluffs of Oil Creek......Between Lawrence County and Perry County are large tracks of Hoosier National Forest and numerous waterways and ridge lines running south (as the glacial melt off that carved these hills and streambeds did years ago)......
Looking at this map, knowing the wild areas between HK's sighting and my wife's sighting, knowing the amount of wild land between the two...
It seems perfectly logical to me that on INGO 2017 shall henceforth be known as....
The Year of the Cat.......
[video=youtube;tqW4xIr7nj0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqW4xIr7nj0[/video]
HK see's big cat on Friday in Lawrence County near the White River...Friday night massive storms come through Southern Indiana causing flash flooding throughout the area....Another INGO'er hears second hand that someone spotted a big cat just south of Jasper it seems Saturday...Sunday morning in northern Perry County my wife spots a big cat near the bluffs of Oil Creek......Between Lawrence County and Perry County are large tracks of Hoosier National Forest and numerous waterways and ridge lines running south (as the glacial melt off that carved these hills and streambeds did years ago)......
Looking at this map, knowing the wild areas between HK's sighting and my wife's sighting, knowing the amount of wild land between the two...
It seems perfectly logical to me that on INGO 2017 shall henceforth be known as....
The Year of the Cat.......
[video=youtube;tqW4xIr7nj0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqW4xIr7nj0[/video]
eldirector
Grandmaster
An organization that tracks large cat sightings;
Confirmations - Cougar Network
Despite the name, that link is safe to click on.
Confirmations - Cougar Network
Despite the name, that link is safe to click on.
indiucky
Grandmaster
What'd be cool is if there was like an INGOer who had a son who is a REALLY good artist who could do a pencil sketch of of a Mountain Lion in the habitat we have in Southern Indiana........You know what I mean? Like if I posted a pic of the terrain and then he sketched a a mountain lion walking along a path or perched on a rock....
Or on a tree branch snaking out away from the cliff overlooking the deer trail....
Or in a rock overhang....
Or walking down a creek....
Wouldn't that be cool????? And maybe she could sell chances on INGO to win this piece of art titled "Hoosier Mountain Lion 2017" and INGO donate the money to a cause that is dear to us....
I would buy one for sure...I bet others would as well......I just wish we had someone like that........Technically you are our Den Mother....Can you check around and see if you know anyone that has that kind of talent and skill????
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What'd be cool is if there was like an INGOer who had a son who is a REALLY good artist who could do a pencil sketch of of a Mountain Lion in the habitat we have in Southern Indiana........You know what I mean? Like if I posted a pic of the terrain and then he sketched a a mountain lion walking along a path or perched on a rock....
Or on a tree branch snaking out away from the cliff overlooking the deer trail....
Or in a rock overhang....
Or walking down a creek....
Wouldn't that be cool????? And maybe she could sell chances on INGO to win this piece of art titled "Hoosier Mountain Lion 2017" and INGO donate the money to a cause that is dear to us....
I would buy one for sure...I bet others would as well......I just wish we had someone like that........Technically you are our Den Mother....Can you check around and see if you know anyone that has that kind of talent and skill????
Oh, he just LOVES when his mom comes up with projects for him. I can ask if he could do something like that when he gets a break in his schedule.
For a wayward traveler, has been so busy he hasn't even had time to update his blog regularly the last couple of months. I know he has at least three drawings to do to mail to me...that he has already been paid for. He is doing a special portrait for me to give to a friend who has been fairly generous in assisting him financially while on this trip. The other two are commissioned drawings for another local person. Shipping from there to here is kind of pricey so I told him to just mail them all together to save $$$.
I'm thinking I may have to go to Serbia if I wish to see him again. I'll have a chat with the artist, but it has to be done at the right time. These artistic types get pretty darn temperamental sometimes.
indiucky
Grandmaster
Oh, he just LOVES when his mom comes up with projects for him. I can ask if he could do something like that when he gets a break in his schedule.
For a wayward traveler, has been so busy he hasn't even had time to update his blog regularly the last couple of months. I know he has at least three drawings to do to mail to me...that he has already been paid for. He is doing a special portrait for me to give to a friend who has been fairly generous in assisting him financially while on this trip. The other two are commissioned drawings for another local person. Shipping from there to here is kind of pricey so I told him to just mail them all together to save $$$.
I'm thinking I may have to go to Serbia if I wish to see him again. I'll have a chat with the artist, but it has to be done at the right time. These artistic types get pretty darn temperamental sometimes.
You're an angel mom45....And remember that "darn temperamental" streak is the well in which he draws his talent....
I kind of like this one....
I'll see what I can do. I believe he is currently exploring caves in the Serbian forest somewhere near the Danube based on his last FB post. He said there were bones in the first cave but has not responded to whether or not they were human remains so I hope he survives this adventure.
indiucky
Grandmaster
Your son is like the last of the Victorian era explorers....I know it's not like this but when I read his posts this is what I see him as lol...
I'll keep him in my prayers.....The world needs artistic types willing to grab life by the ***** and he surely does.....
Add a man bun and that could be him! LOL! Some day, I will cut that off or find my clippers when he is sleeping and give him the sort of haircut I gave him as a child. 
I guess I have to be able to reach him to do that though.
I guess I have to be able to reach him to do that though.
indiucky
Grandmaster
No one on INGO doubts her sighting.....
Not one of our neighbors doubt her sighting....
The only person that did doubt her sighting is a former DNR employee....I have come to believe that is their default mode on things such as this...
Not one of our neighbors doubt her sighting....
The only person that did doubt her sighting is a former DNR employee....I have come to believe that is their default mode on things such as this...
Obviously, he or she is a science denier. This has been settled once INGO says 'yes', it's a thing.
CountryBoy19
Grandmaster
DNR has been denying the existence of big cats for a long time now. They've taken it so much to the extreme that you can show them a trailcam picture with indisputable evidence in the photo that the picture was taken at a property in Indiana and they will not call it a verified sighting, nor acknowledge that sighting. The camera MUST be a DNR owned camera, placed by DNR, and the pictures viewed by DNR before they will even admit to a sighting.
They are using the black helicopters when they arent busy.
indiucky
Grandmaster
Are they the same ones they used to drop the timber rattlesnakes in Perry County with?
It's easy to see how that rumor started.....We get A LOT of military aircraft flying pretty low in Perry County...As it was told to me back after WW 2 the US Government contacted the residents of Perry County about getting permission to fly low in the County....2/3d's of the County is Hoosier National Forest and the rest is farm land.....As I understand it there was some sort of compensation allowed for the residents for doing so...
During weed harvest time we get ISP choppers flying low looking for Mary-Joo-Awana plants but I don't think they have much success because the smoke from the meth labs obscures their visibility....We have had a few jets fly over fast and low...And I mean LOW!!! The funniest experience Laura had was one Saturday morning she was in the shack getting her coffee to head out to the porch for her morning ritual (which is how this thread got started I suppose)..I was at the shop and just she and my daughter were there...As she was in the house she felt this sort of thumping feeling in her chest...She could hear nothing but could feel it...Like she was right by a helicopter....She stepped out on the porch and it got more intense....She walked to the end of the porch and stepped out from under it and looked up and she said she saw 10 pair of feet in boots dangling over the side of a Blackhawk helicopter that was just above the house...She said she could see the mud in their treads....She said a couple of the young Ranger's were leaning over as they passed over the house.....Being a patriotic girl she raised her cup of coffee to them and gave a civilian style salute with the tip of her finger above her right eye....She said they grinned and gave her a proper salute...
She called me down at the shop, told me what happened and said, "I love my ******* country.....Our enemies ain't got a chance...."
Fort Campbell is about 130 miles due south as the crow or Blackhawk flies......
Expect to see moose soon too.
Haven't you heard that global warming has made it too warm even in Maine for moose to survive anymore? Given that Indiana much farther south and obviously much warmer, we should expect any secret deliveries of large ungulates to be of a tropically adapted variety.
Expect to see moose soon too.
