Have you seen one or heard this? â The South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks (GFP) Commission did not adopt a proposal that would have expanded the use of hounds to hunt mountain lions, the agency said in a news release Tuesday, Nov. Mountain lions live in rescue centers like Murray's, and the Pennsylvania Game Commission said a dozen or so people are permitted to possess them. People think the game commission knows that there are mountain lions here but are ingoring the fact. And, except for Florida, the eastern mountain lion is believed to have been extirpated from the East Coast of the United States by 1900. Hunting and trapping have been a part of Pennsylvaniaâs rich history since the beginning of the Commonwealth. The Game Commission occasionally hears about cougar sightings too, but agency officials are skeptical about their origins. PA Game Commission Release Results of Alleged Mountain Lion Attack PA Game Commission Release Results of Alleged Mountain Lion Attack. Heard an interesting one recently, and it ended the way they all have. A mountain lion was shot and killed in western PA last month in a cow pasture. A note from the Pennsylvania Game Commission: Pennsylvania's last known wild eastern mountain lion was killed in Berks County in 1874. But, over the years, mountain lion sightings ⦠Newer Post Older Post Home. "Recently there was an emu captured in Houtzdale, Clearfield County," says Feaser. All of the above are Mountain Lions, or Pumas, or Cougars. By regulation, mountain lion harvest closes once the female harvest quota in Game Management Unit 54, south of Twin Falls, has been met. It had attacked a dairy cow, and the farmer killed it. A number of alleged mountain lion sightings in PA has people debating on whether or not the western cat is ⦠HARRISBURG In announcing the most recent results of its ongoing investigation into an alleged mountain lion attack on Oct 9 Pennsylvania Game Commission officials today announced tests conducted on a knife allegedly used by Samuel Fisher 42 of Sadsbury Township Lancaster County were positive for human blood The tests ⦠Mountain Lions in Pennsylvania? That is a more populated area. PINE GROVE - Despite a few alleged sightings reported to the borough police, area residents are unlikely to encounter a mountain lion, according to a Pennsylvania Game Commission official. Can so many people be wrong? And in the news in East Hills a big cat has been seen there. Farmer called the Game Commission, and a guy came out immediately and hauled it away in a pickup truck. The cougar is considered an extirpated species in Pennsylvania.