Eastern cougar extinction–Tennessee perspective
Posted in Eastern Cougar, Tennessee, USFWS Delisting on Mar 13th, 2011
The Great Smoky Mtns NP is on the border between the assumed former range of the eastern cougar and the Florida panther. (In fact, there are no historic specimens of cougars from Tennessee or anywhere else in the Southeast and east-central states outside of Florida, 2 in Louisiana, and one in West Virginia.) http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2011/mar/13/officially-extinct/ Officially [...]