WISCONSIN COUGAR ??

I'll have to admit that this photo which recently appeared in the Lakeland Times is pretty small but it will have to do. The shot supposedly shows a cougar approaching a deer feeder in Vilas County. There have been many reports the last few years of cougar moving into a niche in North Eastern Wisconsin that wolves fill in North Western and North Central Wisconsin, but few photographs have turned up that were not regarded as hoaxes. The Wisconsin DNR is very interested in this photo as it appears to be real and the vegetation in the background is consistent with vegetation in Vilas County. Not very much documentation arrived at the Lakeland Times with the photo so the DNR and the paper are actively soliciting people who shot the photo and have seen the animal to come forward.