Robert Miller: So, you think you saw a mountain lion in CT? The term is because mascots notwithstanding right that they're referred to with a lot of different terms and sometimes they can be confused with a lot of different terms. Wild populations of mountain lion survive in southern Florida and in mountains of the West. The feedback will only be used for improving the website. Like Tate, he gets a lot of photos and . What time of day was it? Mistaken reports of mountain lions in Massachusetts are most commonly Bobcats. Thank you very much for being here. So so in 2011 a mountain lion was killed in a car accident in Connecticut a car hit a mountain lion and killed it. There wasn't a distinct subspecies the North American mountain lion is all is all one species and then you can find a genetically distinct South American subspecies. Some of the reports that I looked into that were actually on file at the local fish and game office were even from people who did not live locally. So what a neat experience. Peter Biello: Let's go to Mike in Epping. Well let me ask maybe Pat and Rick about this. Not yet. So what I'm getting back is the verifying and confirming of evidence what that was not there. He said matter of fact I do. It is considered an invasive species brought by early settlers from Europe (my guess Great Britain) for medicinal purposes and grown for a variety of ailments, among them in those days, leprosy. The deadline for fuel assistance applications is Sunday, but most state emergency funds are still unspent. Mountain lion sightings in New Hampshire have increased along with the bobcat population, said Tate. Japanese knotweed and phragmites are the bane of my existence on our road. Someone photographed the animal at the Brunswick School on Greenwich, Connecticut about 40 miles away on June 5th. Still more confusion ensued when a lab technician said she might have gotten some samples confused, and thus the canid result was thrown into doubt. So take care of this problem. Patrick Tate: If I could just say one thing. I could hear the steady rush of traffic on Route 315. The tail leave is a giveaway but not everybody gets to see the tail. Peter Biello: Well John thanks very much for the story really appreciate it. Re(3): Webster update - Misunderstanding. Mountain lions live in the state. Within six weeks, he continued, I was getting off the plane in Jackson Hole for a national mountain lion conference. If the observer claims to have seen a Mountain Lion more than once, it is nearly certain they have not. Clearly, Puma concoloronce inhabited the forests of the Northeast, although its difficult to say in what numbers. Its closest living relative is the cheetah. I was a Bobcat we saw it and I have a picture of it. 2023 Yankee publishing, Inc., An Employee-Owned company, all rights reserved. Many people do not realize how large a grown Bobcat is. MassWildlife cannot investigate or confirm mountain lion reports without any evidence. I can't. If you need assistance, please contact the Division of Fisheries and Wildlife. I have no choice but to take this seriously, he told me. The American Lion The Saber tooth Tiger and this was the one that survived. Thank you. A couple of summers ago I found it in our yard and was happy to see it by cultivating it into a small patch. So hard to know hard to refute if there's no interest in making up a story which many people of course do then I would respond the same way as Pat did. So yeah as far as wildlife species that put deer and trees know there aren't any others that I know of that put deer in trees just just humans might be responsible for that. We have evidence and as biologists we would find it quite exciting to find that evidence of one in the state. From came from out west they tracked it all the way back to the Black Hills in the Dakotas. Well let's hear from from Sue Morse again science director for the organization keeping track. When you talk about a bobcat Bobcat maybe 80 90 pounds and then a mountain lion could be between 130 and 180 pounds. A hiker fought off a mountain lion that ambushed him in a canyon in Utah by throwing rocks at it, wildlife officials say. The young adult male was killed by an SUV on the Wilbur Cross Parkway in Milford, Connecticut on June 11, 2011. Sam Evans-Brown: And second the evidence required is is you know pretty pretty tough to gather. Support for an age PR comes from you our listeners. And just one more note about this danger question when even when you look at the states that have extended populations stable populations of mountain lions attacks are relatively rare. Bats have no interest in your hair! A lot of times. Its quite an uphill challenge for us to manage that situation right now. No doubt in my mind it was. McEnroe: It is an uphill challenge. And a lot of people around the county airport have seen a lot of pilots coming in said they saw huge. So that's the specimen that you find going long distances. Something along those lines. Yes.
Lion tales: Some believe cougars occasionally roam the N.H. forests So it's six months of a large large predatory animal that moves great distances on the landscape that is not known if it went northeast west Salt and how many circles it did. Growing up in northern Vermont, Id heard stories of sightings, though always a few steps removed from the tellersomebodys cousin had seen a cougar cross the road on their way home from deer camp up in Canaan (or was it Coventry? And it was unmistakable. Peter Biello: So Patrick today Fish and Game no downward pressure on you to deny the existence at all costs of mountain lions here in New Hampshire. It was really muscular looking cat I mean is that like a side angle to me. Mistaken reports of mountain lions are most commonly bobcats. There's a lot of photographs that you can see that it's very clearly a tabby cat that someone has thought was a mountain lion. The most recent post was Dec. 10 a woman said she was fairly certain she had spotted a mountain lion walking in the grass along the Massachusetts Turnpike between Otis and Westfield around 2:30 a.m. Here are few facts you should know about bats and a few myths to forget. Here it is. Mountain lions when they show up they leave evidence.
Valley News - Cougars in N.H. Hold Feline Mystique October 24, 2010. in News World. You need a permit to have that. New Hampshire Public Radio | And Im assuming whatever were doing right now, its not working. Perhaps, then, the ultimate question isnt whether cougars are among us, but rather how we can encourage them to settle here. Betty folded his arms across his chest, where they rose and fell and rose again with his breathing. New Hampshire Fish and Game Department says there's no proof. Let's talk to Mike in Webster. Listeners we'd love to hear some of your thoughts on this. In the 37 years Ive been working, things have changed in ways Id never have predicted. John if you're still on the line here I was going to I don't. The exchange is a production of New Hampshire Public Radio. Hed encouraged me to keep my eyes open for deer carcasses cached in the trees (according to Ottmann, cougars are fantastic climbers and are known to stash their kills high in trees), but I saw only leaf-bare branches. support for an HBO who comes from you our listener Sam from advanced in you a local New Hampshire nonprofit specializing in college student loans and student refinancing options. And when provoked no animal could stand before him elegantly put. Patrick Tate: It became a very interesting investigation over time because it started becoming. That's the real story is they can't follow up on every one of these sightings. And it was this curiosity that led me to the Old Well Tavern in Simsbury, Connecticut, at a time of day (11:30 a.m.) that does not normally find me ensconced in the dim confines of a drinking establishment. I appreciated Ottmann and Bettys confidence and commitment, but here I was, poking through thorny thickets behind a bar, trailing a bleeding man whose devotion to proving the presence of cougars was beginning to seem like a quixotic quest with no end. At 6:20 on the morning of Aug. 20, Cheri Mazerall had just let her cat out the back door when she saw what she describes as a "beautiful, large beige/yellow" animal with "large feet and a long tail" come over her . If you would like to continue helping us improve Mass.gov, join our user panel to test new features for the site. Ottmann and I walked farther. In 2011, genetic testing confirmed that a mountain lion originated in South Dakota and traveled more than 1,500 miles before being struck by a car on the Merritt Parkway, according to Reuters. Patrick Tate: So one thing I'd say is DNA would definitely identify an animal animal's Mark line or not. Both cases meet the evidence requirements of MassWildlife. So one thing I'll add. Information that weed family automotive dot com sunny for today high temperatures low to mid 80s clear tonight overnight lows in the 50s tomorrow sunny highs in the upper 80s. Harrigan nodded. Had great trees behind it beautiful ferns on the ground so it brought me down on the site and the ferns on the ground matched. Author of The last woman in the forest on Saturday July 13th at 7 p.m. at Warner town hall Warner historical dawg. They were able to do all that by genetics. In the first, there are those such as myself, whove maybe heard a few second- or third- or fourth-hand stories as well as official denials from state agencies or professional biologists, and therefore find themselves betwixt and between, neither believing nor disbelieving. Fish and Game then deny the evidence. But its also a great story that lays out how an animal this large, at 150 pounds, traveling through even rural areas, leaves signs and is detected. It is difficult to know if someone saw a mountain lion without any tangible evidence. And they asked me about the tail which I just did not remember that tail out of that whole experience. Rick Davidson is the author of the exciting thriller "Catamount. She is renowned for tracking. I wish I could see it again! Peter Biello: This is the exchange on an PR. MassWildlifecannot investigate or confirm mountain lion reports without any evidence. I couldnt tell you how happy I would be if mountain lions were actually recolonizing the state of Connecticut, Hawley says, but its just not happening., Hawley spoke about bobcats, mountain lions and bears on The Colin McEnroe Show: Megafauna mania: our obsession with mountain lions and other large predators.. An adult male bobcat can reach four feet in length and 35 to 40 pounds. They absolutely do. It's not an emerging endangered species no work no there are there are populations in specific states so the Florida panther is is an endangered species that sub population is in fact listed under the Endangered Species Act. So I want to start the program with a comment from someone who is not in the studio with us today. 1 800 8 9 2 6 4 7 7. Can you look into this picture. I do this shit.. And so far we have not had any positive mark lion scats or any DNA. Incredible sighting and I called him the fish and game and they immediately sent me to a website to look at all the bobcat pictures. Thanks for calling. Mountain lions dont usually travel more than 100 miles from where they are born. DEPARTMENTAL BULLETIN 1 of 13 Number: 2013-02 Date Issued: March 1, 2013 . I mean that so many of them are false sightings we. We hadnt seen a cougar, nor any evidence to suggest a cougar had traveled these woods recently. Massachusetts and several other New England states have bear hunting, or harvest, seasons, which proponents say help control populations. The females disperse a shorter range and once they find a vacant home range they stay in that location and live there.
Are the mountain lion sightings in Monterey for real? Rick van de Poll: Well I didn't. Betty was quiet, and I wondered if even he, a man who does not doubt the presence of these cats in our midst and who himself claims multiple sightings, thought Ottmann was exaggerating. And they were using all the habitat. In April 1997, experienced tracker John McCarter found scat near a beaver carcass at the Quabbin Reservation. Which goes back to the Connecticut Connecticut cat and what not. The Connecticut mountain lion is the best documented wild Mountain Lion in New England. We know that strays have wandered through New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts; that does not indicate that a sighting means we have a resident mountain lion in the Berkshires. Mountain Lion report and as a biologist for the state that's a situation where if he said to me what did I see. Further, it is already illegal to kill a mountain lion in Massachusetts.
New England Mountain Lion Sighting Bulletin Board's Message Board Three females confirmed well ahead of predictioins, Re(1): Major news! At least once a year thered be a story from somewhere, but I only ran the absolute best, he told me. Re (3): Mountain Lion sighting in Brookfield ct - By weather01089 February 1, 2016 at 04:55:52 PM. You know I think it's there's a lady Holly Ernst out in California who has done a lot of the genotyping of mountain lions in Northern California the ones that are of course most people have heard about taking down hikers bikers etc.
Does not test random Scouts. By, March 2023 Fund Drive Rules and Regulations, Persons with disabilities who need assistance accessing NHPR's FCC public files, please contact us at publicfile@nhpr.org. Patrick Tate: So I just got to throw a little interesting side note in this. Sam Evans-Brown: Well first I want to sort of explain why what the theory is but then also throw a bit of cold water on it because I don't think there's much much logic behind it but essentially is that if fish and game were to acknowledge that there was a population of Mount lions in the state there's a chance that something like a listing under the federal Endangered Species Act might happen and then there'd be you know some they'd have to put a plan in place to protect the species there'd be you know restrictions put on development. Post a New Message | Search | New England Mountain Lion Sighting Bulletin Board . Weve got a growing bear population. It is what wildlife biologists call an apex carnivore, which means it can overpower pretty much any other creature in its environmentwith the exception of an armed human. Sam Evans-Brown: But I mean the video I had been sent was you know a recording of a animal growling but it was in slow motion and when I asked the person why is this in slow motion the denied that it was so there's a lot of weird stuff that happens in regards to people claiming they've seen they've seen these things. How big was the animal? Peter Biello: Hmm. But perhaps an even larger portion is the product of his enduring faith in the men and womanloggers, hunters, trapperswhose vocations and avocations have instilled in them a deep familiarity with wild places and the creatures who inhabit them. People often get very emotional about it, Hawley says. There'd be there'd be all sorts of you know basically a lot of hassle required if that were to happen. Michael Brindley is our program manager our producers our Jessica Hunt and Christina Phillips and our theme music was composed by Bob Lord. A NatureWatch reader asks if a big cat they saw during a recent walk on October Mountain could be a mountain lion, like the one seen in this image from Pixabay. I was at the Sentinel as a reporter there for about four years and during that time I probably wrote close to a half dozen stories or so on this topic including a lengthy feature at one point that in which I spoke to several people from around the banana region claimed to have seen mountain lions that at one time or another. The deer dont eat the exotics, but they eat the competitors. So its this gathering storm. He told me that on one of his many scouting trips for Black Bear he found a deer carcass up in a tree.
Some Suspects in On-Going Catamount Investigation Anyone can get fooled. Peter Biello: Thank you for sharing that. Im gonna get hammered for it, he sighed. Shop. And really whenever you hear tiny code and long rope like tale it's kind of hard to pin this sighting on any other creature rather than an outline or just nothing else really matches that description. So I did a bunch of research and all the documentation I found was there art are not any pieces of DNA of Eastern online. A harvest is kind of twofold. Peter Biello: Well Mike thanks very much for sharing your story. But I do think that it's appropriate that a fishing game agency would recognize verifiable proof if they could. Peter Biello: Ok. Many people do not realize how large a grown Bobcat is. Hear the full interview: Megafauna mania: our obsession with mountain lions and other large predators. And listeners this has been a lively conversation we're sorry we didn't get to all the the e-mailed comments and the phone calls your stories are appreciated even if we didn't get a chance to hear them today. Thanks for a great thanks. Really appreciate it. Caller: I do. You're on the air. Here's where sightings have occurred since. Kim Royar, a biologist at the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department, told me she receives 40 to 50 reports annually, and although she believes that few, if any, are actual cougar sightings, she doesnt dismiss the possibility that someday someone will happen upon the real deal. 172. A: It is less common than many other invasives but is found here in the Berkshires. m from a weed family Automotive on store Street in Concord is serving the Concord area families automotive needs since 1995. Yeah I did. So that that's more or less I think why I'm here and why I got into this in nineteen ninety nine I found a what appeared to be a print of a mountain lion and that was in the Osprey mountains and I thought well OK that's that's a print. He drove me out to the spot. Peter Biello: This is the exchange on an HP yard today we're talking about the mysterious elusive majestic Mystic Mountain Lion. Caller: And then there's the Lily Pond Road and then there's a six foot tall fence. Rick your thoughts. The females are where its at, she said. Well I can't tell you what you saw. It is a low, sprawling plant with small 1.4-inch scarlet flowers. Listeners give us a call if you'd like. Pat ruse and he was sampling doing DNA samples from cats in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. So Marty can you see what I'm getting at is the public sees different names and thinks that they're different animals but it's all the same animal. Re (2): Mountain Lion sighting in Brookfield ct - By Ryan January 31, 2016 at 11:16:51 PM. Attracting the black swallowtail butterfly to your yard is as easy as planting parsley and carrots in your garden. All they think it traveled north through Canada up you know crossed across the Great Lakes and then and then down again through New York State. bobcat in new england article-By katchaya May 23, 2017 at 06:22:02 AM. John. Peter Biello: We at this e-mailed comment from Michael. Some argue that it's a leap of faith. Colin McEnroe is a radio host, newspaper columnist, magazine writer, author, playwright, lecturer, moderator, college instructor and occasional singer. We need [an apex] predator back on the land, Sue Morse told me. Morse founded Keeping Track in the belief that getting citizens interested and engaged in wildlife will have the knock-on effect of getting them interested and engaged in how land-use decisions affect wild populationsand might provide the impetus for conservation efforts. Nowhere in New England is the matter definitively settled. I've collected scat samples I've got several in my collection. Just. Both labs confirmed the sample came from a mountain lion. It was some sort of a Lion Mountain Lion animal. Caller: And the more I thought about it the color of it it was definitely not a bobcat. Caller: So I've been telling this story for five years or so and very few people believe me. Wildlife experts say no. SUE Morse naturalist and science director for the organization keeping track. We have seen them run through our yard. This assessment is echoed by the aforementioned Christopher Spatz, who has been studying cougars for better than 20 years. When I accepted the assignment to write about my quest to uncover the truth regarding the existence of cougars in New England, I had little idea what I was agreeing to.
Mountain Lion Population (In Each U.S. State) - Wildlife Informer According to French's article: To date, the only other confirmed evidence of a wild Mountain Lion in Massachusetts was found on March 4, 2011, when Steve Ward, a DCR forester, photographed a trail in the snow crossing a frozen cove near the southwestern end of Quabbin Reservoir. Now, similar proof is what we need! The report came in from a conservation officer. In 1994, scat collected after a sighting in Craftsbury, Vermont, was found to contain cougar hair (the animals are prone to ingesting their hair while grooming), and the commissioner of the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department circulated a memo with the following line: Harrigans interest in cougars was sparked in the late 70s, after he took ownership of, Perhaps, then, the ultimate question isnt whether cougars are among us, but rather how we can encourage them to settle here, After 20 minutes or so, we turned and stumbled our way back to the parking lot. It doesn't make much sense because you know mountain lions are as we as we said before. I mean it wasn't your idea. But one day. No evidence and other states where Mountain lights have turned up. Mountain lions are solitary and . Q: I recently read the book "The Scarlet Pimpernel" by Sir Percy Blakeney and was telling a friend about it, and she reminded me that it is also is a wildflower. Patrick Tate: Same here in New Hampshire too. Patrick Tate New Hampshire Fish and Game Wildlife Biologist thanks very much for being here this morning really appreciate it. I live pretty much on the town line of Greenfield just a couple of miles down in the Greenfield. If it's just in the middle of a greenfield you can't prove anything. Two mountain lion encounters in his driveway. She lives near the end of a gravel road in a modest, low-slung house tucked into the flanks of the Green Mountains.
Sheep Found Skinned Sparks Fears of 'New Indigenous Species' Harrigans interest in cougars was sparked in the late 70s, after he took ownership of The Coos County Democrat and began noticing the steady influx of reported sightings. So you want identifiable backgrounds. But other hard evidence of the big cats presence is elusive. Forty years of reporting on New Hampshire cougar sightings has convinced Harrigan that the state is home to at least a handful of breeding animals. Patrick Tate: Yes. They run to about 25 mph. So I just throwing that out there it's interesting. Wed be seeing more carcasses of prey we would be seeing at least some carcasses of mountain lion prey. It's you know I recognized their report and. I'm Peter Biello. Also, Bobcats are spreading into areas in which they have not been seen before. Oh well, not much I can do about that., William B., of Pittsfield wrote, I learned something from your column about invasive species. Patrick Tate: So Cougar Mountain Lion katama. Were arrogant if we think were the only species that makes decisions based on fear, he told me when I called him at his home in Oregon. So here we have you know a very qualified biologist who who found a print took a plaster cast found a scat send it to a university. I didn't see him online. An adult male bobcat can reach four feet in length and 35 to 40 pounds. No that's a little bit outside the range. So let's let's go to the phones. Caller: Are probably. Sam Evans Brown. And so maybe before I go to you recommend I ask you Patrick Tate is the standard too high. Hawley:Were sort of stuck between a rock and a hard place right now. Have it reported down in the Keene area. So I hate the idea that there's some sort of upward you know downward pressure from the bosses saying Don't you know don't tell about the mountain lions because it'll scare away the tourists. Mike you're on the air. If so that's for us as an agency. So what those ranges. Peter Biello: Listeners give us a call if you have a question or a story of a sighting 1 800 8 9 2 6 4 7 7. People go through great lengths to create hoaxes like this. He set down his cigarette and looked me in the eye. They set the stage for the exotics to move in, and this has a huge impact on our ecology, he said. They sent it already. Patrick Tate: Yes. Have there been others reporting this big cat recently? My wife and I saw a mountain lion. Here's why reports are so tough to prove mass.gov/doc/mountain-lions-in-massachusetts-distinguishing-fiction-from-the-facts/download, There are 69 invasive plant species in Massachusetts. Sighting of this animal also occurred in Michigan and New York. Well let's talk a little bit about that. His mention of these encounters was so matter-of-fact that I found myself nodding along. "Of those three to five reports, one. Mike Guyton pressure was almost Greyhound like very muscular large back legs on it and the coloration on it was almost an orange brownish orange color and so I stop and I look at this thing in the field and as the animal looks at me the face was very chiseled definitely not a bobcat. The views expressed in this program are those of the individuals and not those of an HP are its board of trustees or its underwriters. If theres a middle ground in the cougar debate, it belongs to John Harrigan, a veteran outdoorsman, newspaper reporter, and widely read syndicated columnist.
MassWildlife has only confirmed 2 mountain lion reports in the last 30 The tails gotta be there. Course like Sue said you have to see it and it's not always that visible. In the second camp, there are those issuing the denials, pointing to the lack of photographic evidence, or the absence of tracks, or the simple truth that many people dont seem to know the difference between a cougar and a bobcat and a lynx and even, in some cases, a golden retriever. We've met Fish and Game's BURDEN OF PROOF. We're gonna talk about sightings in this part of the program as well we'd love to hear your story. These are the slides, included in a slide show on mountain lion sightings in New Hampshire. Which which I think Pat and I have both experienced. The next week, on June 11, the cat was hit and killed by an SUV on the Wilbur Cross Parkway in Milford. This is a machine-generated transcript, and may contain errors. Still, sightings are common. We actually have the largest subspecies of bobcat in the northern part of our state which they can get up to 40 and over 40 pounds which looks like an 80 pound the animal to visually and quite large. So so it is possible in Maine to still to to to have one but you have to be sort of professional handler as it were. Rick van de Poll: Well a report that you know as John Harrigan up north has in co-ops County for about 15 years I kept track of reports and people would call me and tell me where they saw the mountain lion they thought they saw it and it varied right from you know downtown villages all the way to remote highlands of the North Country and and everywhere in between. Theres probably 100 in Connecticut, Ottmann interrupted, rolling a cigarette as he spoke. Want to put this to to Patrick Tate who may have heard some some info or info from listeners like you about these these these cats.
New England Mountain Lion Sighting Bulletin Board's Message Board Peter Biello: Oh okay. So I've been convinced the whole time that I saw a big cougar plume or whatever you want to call it standing there in the road in Greenfield. I was aware, too, of how a certain mythology surrounding the animal had taken root in Vermonts culture and even its identity: The University of Vermonts athletic teams, for instance, are known as the Vermont Catamounts, and their logo features a snarling cat lunging through the cleft of a V., I met with Morse at her home in Jericho. Caller: It had to be a mountain lion convinced I was about 30. Through DNA they approximate area in the United States or North America where I was born. You might think that it would be easy to tell the two cat species apart. So we tossed these terms around but really the term subspecies has been sort of redefined in our lifetimes. Can you tell us about that story. Peter Biello: So a little bit of nostalgia maybe for it for a better world embodied in the mountain lion. Connecticut Dept. These tracks may have been made by the mountain lion documented in Greenwich, Connecticut on June 5, 2011, and killed by a vehicle six days later. Because they are.. I would say that there's going to be the truth in here somewhere. Q: Can you give me an idea if wild turkeyscan fly? Coyotes have been mistaken for mountain lions. We rely on readers like you to support the local, national, and international coverage on this website. Seal pup cuteness best observed from a distance, 70% ineligible in start of NH Medicaid unwinding, We also hear excerpts from an interview with, Read about the most recent cougar "sightings".
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