There’s a mysterious creature allegedly in Iowa, but most photo-graphical evidence of it is grainy, undeveloped, or as the DNR says, oftentimes just a photo of a large dog. This is the time of year where hunters are out in the woods, the brush has cleared, and numerous individuals in the rolling timber of West Central Iowa will claim to see mountain lions, except experts, like the DNR’s Vince Evelsizer says they don’t, at least not usually, “If there is a mountain lion, or rather a report of a mountain lion, then what we’re interested in doing is finding out whether there was one or not. There’s a lot of mistaken identity when it comes to Mountain Lions, usually they are mistaken for large dogs or farm cats. So, when we try to figure out what a report was, we’re not saying they didn’t see a mountain lion, we’re trying to figure out if they did see a mountain lion or not, and usually they did not.”
DNR Gives Input On Large Predator That May (Or May Not) Be Present In Area
Evelsizer admits that while the Iowa DNR doesn’t even acknowledge the Mountain Lion as an Iowan species, they do recognize that males with a hunting territory of hundreds of square miles will occasionally wander through the State, such was the case last November, when footage of a large male was caught just down the road near Desoto in Madison County. That animal was never caught or killed.