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Message: [QUOTE="ctchamps, post: 4333471, member: 37"] Saw one in Goshen in 2003. It was crossing 63 north of the town center. At first I thought it was a deer but then I realized the tail was long. Someone hit and killed a mountain lion with their car a year later on that road. There were spotting of mountain lions in Goshen and Cornwall after that accident. The moose have been in the northwest part of the state before we moved there in 1986. From the map that [USER=6158]@dennismenace[/USER] posted it appears they are successfully spreading to other parts of the state. I’ve had multiple encounters where I was close to black bears. The closest was a young bear that stole the trout I caught while I was fishing on Yellowstone Lake. Another time I was rounding the corner of my condo in North Carolina and a mother and her two frolicking cubs were heading in my direction. We were about twenty feet apart when I saw her. Backed up slightly and they just continued in their direction. Cubs scrambled up and down trees while they trailed her. It was a wonderful encounter. The only time I’ve ever been frightened of bears was when I was hiking in Yellowstone and came across a mother Grizzly and her two cubs. She caught my sent and stood up on her hind legs. What a magnificent creature. We had eye contact with one another for about ten seconds. Fortunately instead of being mauled she went back to looking for food. I was less than a hundred feet from her. Really, really lucky with that encounter. [/QUOTE]

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