The latest photo to go viral and fill up numerous local E-mail in-boxes [including mine] is a frightening-looking gathering of eight mountain lions, supposedly taken somewhere near Oroville, with a motion sensitive night-vision camera. The photo flashed across the country, and I even got authentication inquiries from editors of several outdoors-related publications.
The photo was actually taken late last year by a hunter's trail camera in Douglas County, WA. The Washington Fish and Wildlife Agency confirms the photo itself is real, and that the unusual gathering is possibly an adult female mountain lion with a litter meeting up with one of her adult female offspring that also has a litter.
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Good trout action greeted Irvine Lake anglers this week, despite rainy midweek conditions, reported Jimmy Getty at the Pro Shop. "We have had too many 3 to 5-pounders weighed in to even keep track of", observed Getty. "They have really been whacking them right out in front [of the Pro Shop]." Getty added, "For the President's Day holiday this week, we will have two special trout stockings. The first will be another load of rainbow trout in the 10......
