{"id":451212,"date":"2026-02-05T21:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T21:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/451212\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T21:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T21:14:11","slug":"michigan-dnr-confirms-34-cougar-sightings-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/451212\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan DNR confirms 34 cougar sightings in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Michigan DNR confirmed 34 cougar sightings in the state for 2025, 11 more than 2024.<\/p>\n<p>While the number of confirmed sightings went up, that does not necessarily mean more cougars are in the state.<\/p>\n<p>UpNorthLive News has compiled dozens of Michigan DNR cougar sighting pictures from recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>The DNR has data on every confirmed sighting in the state since 2008. <a href=\"https:\/\/app.powerbigov.us\/view?r=eyJrIjoiMTVlNjE2ODMtZmIwZi00OTkyLWJkZjQtMTE1MDY4NmUwYzNkIiwidCI6ImQ1ZmI3MDg3LTM3NzctNDJhZC05NjZhLTg5MmVmNDcyMjVkMSJ9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">You can check that out here!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Michigan DNR confirmed 34 cougar sightings in the state for 2025, 11 more than 2024. While the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-451212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}