Etoniah Creek State Forest-Mystery Tracks and Other Things

[Gray Blazer]

Re: Black Panthers. I know what I saw. When I reported it to a Park Ranger at Paynes Prarie, he actually snarled at me and called me a liar. He needs to talk to the old-timers in Wacahoota and I'm talking about families that settled there from before the Civil War and people who were cowboys on Paynes Prairie and traded cattle with the Seminole Indians into the 1960's when most of North FL was open range.

All experts do these days is rewrite history. Just look at what they are trying to do to our founding Fathers.

[WingedMonkey]

Re: Black Panthers. I know what I saw. When I reported it to a Park Ranger at Paynes Prarie, he actually snarled at me and called me a liar. He needs to talk to the old-timers in Wacahoota and I'm talking about families that settled there from before the Civil War and people who were cowboys on Paynes Prairie and traded cattle with the Seminole Indians into the 1960's when most of North FL was open range.

All experts do these days is rewrite history. Just look at what they are trying to do to our founding Fathers.

I'm glad you teach music and not history.

Signed,
5th generation Floridian.

[Gray Blazer]

Good one, WM.

[mistiaggie]

1: There are no black 'panthers' in Florida. Maybe a jagurandi which are darker colored.
2: The introduction of the Texas cougar did indeed save the Florida panther from extinction. They still have the giant problem of shrinking land use and the inability for a female to cross the Caloosahatchee, (males have crossed, but females have not, to researcher's knowledge) and to establish a breeding population outside of SW Florida. But, the Texas cougar did save the Florida panther. The Texas cougars didn't just wander away.
3: Etoniah was a wonderful area to hike in, I wish I'd known about it prior to my thru-hike.

For reference to black 'panther' sightings: http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/..._was_just.html
http://doubtfulnews.com/2013/07/big-...-in-louisiana/ See video at the end of this

[Gray Blazer]

1: There are no black 'panthers' in Florida. Maybe a jagurandi which are darker colored.
2: The introduction of the Texas cougar did indeed save the Florida panther from extinction. They still have the giant problem of shrinking land use and the inability for a female to cross the Caloosahatchee, (males have crossed, but females have not, to researcher's knowledge) and to establish a breeding population outside of SW Florida. But, the Texas cougar did save the Florida panther. The Texas cougars didn't just wander away.
3: Etoniah was a wonderful area to hike in, I wish I'd known about it prior to my thru-hike.

For reference to black 'panther' sightings: http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/..._was_just.html
http://doubtfulnews.com/2013/07/big-...-in-louisiana/ See video at the end of this

I looked up the Jaguarundi and that is not what I saw. This is what I saw,

blackpanther.jpg



except he was old and emaciated. The locals even knew about the abandoned house where he lived.

He was big and long with a very long tail and he was black. I know this cuz I caught him in the High beam headlights as we made that sharp turn on CR 320 right off of Williston Rd. He was not a big domestic cat.
Ya'll just have to accept they were here (That was 30 years ago) or just call us NFL hillbillies liars.

[Jackie Hardin]

It was hard to see the pics in detail on my tablet. But from the size, I'd say bears. I ride my horses there once in a while. There are many bears in Etonia. They get pretty big.

[JaxHiker]

Etoniah is a very nice section of the FT.