The Mountain Lion Hunter of Chelan
A local hunter brings in a massive cougar as regional reports note the predator is terrorizing the deer population.
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Chelan, Jan. 31. Joseph Graham came down the lake last Thursday, bringing a cougar which he had killed, and which weighed 140 pounds and measured eight and a half feet from the tip of his nose to the tip of his tail. These animals are very numerous this winter, and it is stated that they are killing a large number of deer.
“These animals are very numerous this winter, and it is stated that they are killing a large number of deer.”
Cougar sightings and management remain a point of tension in the rural-urban divide of Washington state, though the concern has shifted from protecting game to human-wildlife safety in encroaching suburban zones.
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