Officials with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service have announced that the eastern puma, which used to range from Quebec and Manitoba to South Carolina and Illinois, is now extinct. The government agency has also removed the cougars from endangered species list.
Taking the pumas off the endangered list will enable eastern states, such as New York, to reintroduce western pumas, also called mountain lions, into the region. The last eastern puma killed in the wild was in Maine over 80 years...
