Probably a coyote.

 

If I had a dollar for every Bumpkin & Urbanite as well that has told me they have seent a Wolf where no one else ever has - “I know what I’m lookin at!” - well, I’d have about twenty bucks.

 

Probably a coyote. I do my deer hunting in Gladwin, not sure what those coyotes are eating up there, but I have had some stocky looking ones on my trail cams this year.

 

This. Got a couple huge males on trail cam this year.

 

I saw one in Presque Isle county and I don't give a rats A__ if people believe it or not.
I know my sh__ and have seen enough to know the difference.
There is actually three that were confirmed in the lower since 2004 I believe.

 

What area of P.I. county did you see it?

 

And there has also been confirmed cougar tracks and scat found in Presque Isle county. Also confirmed "Coywolf" population in neighboring Cheboygan county.

 

Not confirmed by an actual wildlife biologist. You are quoting the Michigan Wildlife Conservancy which is is a joke. This is a for profit club that will print most anything for a donation or a new membership.

L & O

 

How many times do we have to do this. Has there been cougars in the LP? Yes. Are there cougars in the LP? No.

My uncle in central Ohio had a black bear in his garbage can. Should he spend one second worrying about black bears? Of course not.

Like Jarvi said, the moment I hear someone say “I know what I’m looking at!” I know they almost assuredly don’t.

 

I faced off against a cougar that followed me home from a bar in Onaway one night. It scratched my back somethin' fierce.

 

Been known to happen around the Northland!!!!

 

There was a wolf shot in southern LP last winter. Can't find the link but that was confirmed by DNR. They're here. I hear a lot of locals swear they're in the Deadstream Swamp but I've never seen one and there are lots of coyote packs. I hear them every night.

 

Rare gray wolf killed, not seen in southern Michigan for 100 years, ‘How did it get here?’

The DNR is investigating the unusual case.

www.mlive.com

 

About 30 years ago there was a extensive article in the Oscoda Newpaper on two wild Wolf pups that were trapped in a live trap outside of Alpena. They were seen by a railroad track and traps were set, the wolfs were caught and examined by DNR, confirmed to be wolf and then released back where they were caught. I believe there was even photos of them. I had a cabin in those parts and took the paper weekly.

 

I asked a CO once if there were cougars in The LP. He said no. I then asked why it says it’s illegal to shoot them in the hunting guide if they don’t exist. He smiled, turned around and walked away. Draw your own opinions from that.

 

I would have walked away as soon as possible too.

 

No wolves but a few cougars at elk lake bar once in a while.

 

Wasn't there a female and cubs caught on a trailcam in the UP a few years back?

 

There are dogmen in Grayling also. I know this because I listened to the lyrics of the song and I've listened to a lot of songs before. Halloween is getting close, they'll be out!

 

These threads drive me crazy, because it is so hard to separate the disinformation from the facts and there are so many lunatics participating in them. But thank you for bringing some truth to this mess of a thread.

 

I saw one drinking a pina colada at trader vic's...

 

His hair was perfect...

 

Wolf were planted by DNR in Gladwin Co. to help control the pig population.

 

Yes. Wife saw one on Cody Estey road between Estey and Albright shores eating a dead deer a couple years back. She stopped cause she thought it was a bear from a distance. Black canine with yellow eyes. She stopped within 30 feet of it and it kept eating without concern that she stopped. She's had German Shepard's most of her life and said it was twice the size of any Shepard she's ever seen. I questioned her story and wasn't convinced till she elaborated on the sighting.

 

Thanks. First good answer to the question (which didn't have anything to do with cougars). That's very close to the area I'm talking about. This supposed sighting occurred last weekend, but my mother-in-law who was a biology teacher swore there was one on the back of her property years ago. I've put both incidents down to being large coyotes, but you never know.

 

Peoples opinions mean nothing regarding any doubt of a wolf in the LP. Who'd have thunk there would have been a Wolverine in the SLP of Michigan ? The DNR denied cougars lived in the UP till they couldn't anymore. Anything is possible when there are wolves in the UP and an ice bridge allows them to travel to the NLP. There are absolutely wolves in the NLP. I saw one on two separate occasions in Otsego and Cheboygan counties. Even back in 1982 when I saw a wolf in Baraga county, the DNR were denying wolves lived up there. Guaranteed they live in the LP if for no other reason other than one was killed in SLP mistaken for a coyote.

 

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The DNR denied cougars lived in the UP till they couldn't anymore. ...............
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Nope. What they did for a number of years was to say that they were not able to confirm wolves in the UP until there was confirmed proof from scat, fur, footprints or photo. In the 1970's DNR biologists confirmed single wolves. The 1st breeding pair wasn't confirmed until 1991.
Big difference between denying and not being able to confirm.
There were many people who said that they saw a wolf in the UP before confirmation. As a side note there have been way more UFOs reported in the LP in the last 60 years there have been wolves or cougars. To date, not one UFO has been confirmed.
About 1 million trail cameras and backyard surveillance systems in the LP. To date the only wolves confirmed to turn up on a trail camera were on the Indian reservation in Emmet county in 2015. Zero cougars confirmed on trail cameras or surveillance systems. The Bath township cougar was capture on a cell phone camera.
At some point and maybe soon, both will appear on a trail camera with the crazy number that are placed in heavy traveled deer areas.

L & O

 

I have seen a Grey Wolf near Fruit Port out in the middle of no where 20ish years ago when I lived in Grant driving to I96 towards Walker in the wee hours of the morning running late to work! Believe me or not! I know what I saw! It may have been someone's pet wolf running loose or the DNR has it running around!

 

I said the same thing when I saw a black cougar (panther) back in the late 80s early 90s downstate near Milford. "Believe me or not". Didn't matter to me cause I know it had a 3 foot tail and it was a large cat walking under a power line in yellow saw grass. Never mentioned it until I saw in the Detroit News that some crack house had it in the basement to protect their stash and it got too mean to control so they put a 2x12 from the floor to the basement window and opened the window and unchained the cat. It was caught by Officials a few days later. I'll never call someone a liar even tho I may have doubts, especially after that Black cat sighting.

 

I have no skin in this game or formal opinion, but I find it fascinating of all the stories I hear about cougars. I heard of more than one sighting in Hillsdale County when I lived there in the late 80's, and heard of a couple in the past 10 years near Howard city from people I would think know what they saw. Makes me wonder.

 

A gal I know who lives east of Howard City saw one a couple of years ago. She said it was in tall grass but she could see its back and head. Way taller than a bobcat.

 

i don't think people can separate a wandering animal from a sustained population.

 

Exactly

 

These images are from my trailcam in the Charlevoix-Otsego-Emmet county regions circa 2014:

The consensus on Michigan-Sportsman back then was it was a coyote standing on snow pack.

But there was a DNR confirmed wolf in not far away as noted earlier in this thread in another post back in 2015.


Below is a link to that thread.

You can click on the images there for higher resolution images.

https://www.michigan-sportsman.com/threads/wolf.511873/post-5159070

 

Looks like a healthy coyote to me. That's not to say wolves aren't there. Can't say if they were in the LP at that time but they are today.

 

All the so-called(certified true) trail Cam pictures hold as much credibility as the Mitch Rompolo buck.

 

A couple of field trialers swore they saw one at the Gladwin Trial grounds a few years ago. The DNR came out and said it was a "large dog" based on the track.

 

https://www.tuscolatoday.com/news/report-cougar-spotted-in-millington/article_8d66f5c0-90e2-11ef-8e8b-8fd5e05c937d.html?utm_campaign=blox&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwY2xjawGF-5xleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHUloq4MlZeFwNIOVTD3diIL33LOj4jR25THx2x6MeFwsN2Yne83uwFAtBw_aem_5q8iE-ESrG_LjA-lOfYEVw