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"On July 8, 1928, Ranger M.H. Durban of the Gardiner District killed a young cougar which measured 6'4" from tip to tip. Durban had been working on the lookout tower at Fern Top Mountain and had noted fresh tracks in the trail near the lookout. He phoned Lewis Seymour of Gardiner, who has two well-trained dogs. Consequently Mr. Seymour lost no time in leaving for the lookout, but being rather fat and soft made it only part way up the mountain that evening. Next morning he had traveled only a short distance, treeing the cougar near the lookout. Ranger Durban, hearing the dogs at bay, was soon there and shot the animal from near the top of a large hemlock tree."
