{"id":11852,"date":"2016-09-25T14:28:10","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T19:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=11852"},"modified":"2016-09-25T14:28:10","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T19:28:10","slug":"twra-confirms-sighting-of-cougar-in-wayne-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2016\/09\/25\/twra-confirms-sighting-of-cougar-in-wayne-county\/","title":{"rendered":"TWRA confirms sighting of Cougar in Wayne County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-46127\" title=\"Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency - TWRA\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/tennessee-wildlife-resources-agency.gif\" alt=\"Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency - TWRA\" width=\"140\" height=\"137\" \/><strong>Nashville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) has confirmed the sighting of a cougar in Wayne County on property located in an area between Linden and the county seat of Waynesboro.<\/p>\n<p>A trail camera captured the cat\u2019s image on September 4th and the agency, as it does when it receives reports accompanied by credible evidence, began investigating the report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe often get asked what it means if we confirm the documentation of a cat in an area where we haven\u2019t seen one before,\u201d said Joy Sweaney, a wildlife biologist with TWRA and head of the agency\u2019s Cougar Action Team.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_332862\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Cougar.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-332862\" class=\"wp-image-332862 size-medium\" title=\"Cougar sighting in Wayne County confirmed by Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Cougar-480x320.jpg\" alt=\"Cougar sighting in Wayne County confirmed by Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency.\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-332862\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cougar sighting in Wayne County confirmed by Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more-->\u201cMost likely they are repeated sightings of an individual cougar, as they can travel long distances in a short period of time. However, there is no way of knowing for sure if it is the same individual or a new arrival.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The wildlife agency has confirmed eight sightings since September 2015, with the previous five confirmations in Humphreys County. This is the first documented sighting in Wayne County.<\/p>\n<p>A list of Tennessee confirmed cougar sightings can be found on TWRA\u2019s website at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tnwildlife.org\" >www.tnwildlife.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Other states surrounding Tennessee are also confirming the presence of western cougars, which have been expanding their range for years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe suspect that cougars are expanding from western populations as there have been many recently documented sightings in Arkansas and Missouri,\u201d noted Sweaney.<\/p>\n<p>There are no hunting seasons established on cougars in Tennessee. Anyone sighting a cougar, especially accompanied by supporting evidence, is asked to contact the TWRA. Telephone numbers and email address are listed on the agency\u2019s website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nashville, TN &#8211; The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) has confirmed the sighting of a cougar in Wayne County on property located in an area between Linden and the county seat of Waynesboro. A trail camera captured the cat\u2019s image on September 4th and the agency, as it does when it receives reports accompanied by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[2796,10689,199,11298,2376,1644,284,261,608,973,5312,2654],"class_list":["post-11852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","tag-arkansas","tag-cougar","tag-humphreys-county","tag-joy-sweaney","tag-linden-tn","tag-missouri","tag-nashville-tn","tag-tennessee","tag-tennessee-wildlife-resources-agency","tag-twra","tag-wayne-county","tag-waynesboro-tn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11853,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11852\/revisions\/11853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}