Posted: 06.22.2010

Michigan officials say a blurry photo is
yet one more piece of evidence that cougars are back after a
centurylong extinction in the state.

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Environment
released the photo Monday night.
The agency says ``although the image is blurred, the photo is
consistent with a cougar.''

A trail camera snapped the photo May 26 near Wallace in the
central Upper Peninsula, about 15 miles north of Marinette, Wis.
Cougars are also known as mountain lions. The were native to
Michigan, but the last known wild cougar in Michigan was killed
near Newberry in 1906.

In the past two years, five sets of cougar tracks and two photos
have been confirmed in Delta, Chippewa, Marquette and Menominee
counties.
 

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