The Seattle Parks and Recreation Department will re-open Discovery Park after a cougar that had been sighted there and possibly in Greenwood was captured Sept. 6.
The park will open at 11 a.m., Sunday, Sept. 6. Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) officials caught the cougar about 2:40 a.m. near the Daybreak Star Center.
WDFW had previously set two live traps on the site. The animal was captured with tracking dogs after an employee at Daybreak Star saw the cougar.