The 7- to 9-week-old cubs were found on private land in Ontonagon County in the western Upper Peninsula. A local residents photographed them.

For the first time in more than 100 years, cougar cubs have been verified in Michigan, according to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.

The news Thursday that cougar cubs had turned up in the Upper Peninsula — Michigan’s first confirmed wild cubs in more than a century — sparked both elation and worry. The elation came that a female cougar may have actually made the 900-plus-miles journey from most likely the Black Hills of South Dakota to end

The Michigan DNR announced on Thursday that for the first time in more than 100 years, cougar cubs have been discovered living in the Michigan wild.