Trail camera captures cougar family in Minnesota for first time in 100 years

Cougar kittens documented near Ontario/Minnesota border

"We feel incredibly fortunate to capture such a wild moment," researcher says.

Trail camera captures cougar family in Minnesota for first time in 100 years

A cougar comeback might be happening all the way north in Minnesota.  The Voyageurs Wolf Project (@VoyageursWolfProject) YouTube account shared footage of the first modern-era sighting of a cougar mother raising kittens in the state near Voyageurs National Park. The trail camera video from March 25 shows an adult female cougar with three healthy-looking kittens feeding on a deer carcass.  The victim was GPS-collared as part of a study on the ani…