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believed me,” he said.
So he began a personal crusade that has culminated in a five-year project founded jointly by the Forest Service and Fish and Wildlife Service to search for panther and panther signs in the Southern Mountains.
Carney reported that he spent $13,000 of his own money before he sparked the interest of federal organizations in the project. He is now employed as part of a network of contacts among state and federal resource agencies to help screen, and validate, sighting reports. Field Biologist Robert L. Downing at Clemson University, South Carolina, is Carney’s supervisor in efforts to document the existence of ! mountain lions on the East ! Coast.
Until recently, it was widely believed that the mountain lion—known also as puma, panther, cougar and catamount — had disappeared from the Appalachians. But recent sightings by professional biologists, wildlife personnel and forest and park rangers indicate that the Eastern mountain lion may be
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