The cougar was photographed by a cased and padlocked trail camera on private property on June 1, 2012...
Dr. Patrick Rusz, Director of Wildlife Programs for the Conservancy, and Michael Zuidema, a retired DNR forester, verified the trail camera’s location on a well-worn wildlife trail atop a wooded ridge...
The camera has also photographed wolves, coyotes, fishers and numerous other species at the same site over a four year period...
The MWC said it was publicizing this photograph because it may be the best, clearest photograph of a wild Michigan cougar ever taken...
He has also identified a long list of additional physical evidence dating back to 1966, and notes that Michigan State College zoologist Richard Manville documented several cougar sightings or incidents when he inventoried the fauna of Marquette County’s Huron Mountains from 1939 to 1942...
The most recent MDNR confirmation occurred last May when a cougar was photographed with a hand-held camera near Skanee in Baraga County. That photograph was taken about 50 miles north of the Marquette County trail camera location.