Richard P. Smith

An adult male black bear estimated to weigh at least 300 pounds, based on the size of its tracks, killed five sheep last month and injured a sixth one so badly it had to be dispatched. The sheep were owned by Angel Kleiman from Powers in Menominee County, Mich., about 23 miles west of Escanaba.
About a week before the sheep were killed, a bear broke into a chicken coop on another farm 2-½ miles away and killed eight hens and eight guinea fowl.

There may have been three cougar kittens born to a female mountain lion in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula instead of two, according to hunter and trapper Derrick Guzek from Ontonagon. Guzek photographed one of the kittens and spent time tracking them and their mom in the snow 24 hours after photographing the kitten.
“I was at my buddy’s house after plowing his driveway when he said, ‘Maybe you can get a picture of that bobcat,’ after seeing a cat walking in his driveway through a window,” Guzek said.