new england mountain lion sighting bulletin

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. John Holt's ideas were at first dismissed but he refused to be silent. 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. They're very loyal to what the handler which makes them very dangerous to everyone else. Patrick Tate: It's wow interesting that you brought this up because I've had people report I saw cardamom. Most of the reports I would not consider; a few from experienced hunters and outdoor people were hard to discount, although none of them had photographic proof or any footprints or scratch markings except for one naturalist that I have known for years. And Rick Van de Poll naturalist and founder of ecosystem management consultants of New England. We're gonna talk about sightings in this part of the program as well we'd love to hear your story. Its closest living relative is the cheetah. Patrick Tate: Yeah yeah. If you believe you have seen a mountain lion and want to report it to NH Fish and Game, please contact the Wildlife Division at (603) 271-2461 or wildlife@wildlife.nh.gov to request an observation report form. And consider, for a moment, the concern and outright fear an official acknowledgment of such a carnivorous and predatory creature might evoke. I wish I could see it again! 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. If you need assistance, please contact the Division of Fisheries and Wildlife. 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. Bobcats in Feeding Hills - By Claire October 3, 2014 at 09:39:37 PM. It can run at speeds of up to 50 mph. Thank you very much for listening. Peter Biello: Rick I believe you did mention that that they do leave carcasses up in the tree from time to time but are there any other species known in New Hampshire to do this on a regular basis. These tracks were fresh and well photographed. So that's the specimen that you find going long distances. In 2011, the U.S. Thanks very much. And they asked me about the tail which I just did not remember that tail out of that whole experience. Pat do they typically just move around a lot. 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. In Massachusetts Wildlife magazine (No. Most mountain lion sightings are reported without any evidence other than eyewitness descriptions. So we're fixated on natural but there's other possibilities. Ecosystem Management Consultants of New England, Ask Sam, and recently fielded question about mountain lions, Manchester installs monitors to track air quality disparities. 8 9 2 6 4 7 7. I wonder if it grows around here at all? Kyle I think about Rick Tate wants to jump in here. I wanted to get your thoughts on the mystique of the mountain lion start with you Rick. Course like Sue said you have to see it and it's not always that visible. Some argue that it's a leap of faith. And the clincher, What would you say was the most distinguishing feature? of Energy & Environmental Protection. Our guests today Patrick Tate New Hampshire Fish and Game Wildlife biologist Sam Evans Brown host of an HP podcast outside in. 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. And I saw you cat about four feet long from nose to tail come across from the water across the road and just leap over a six foot perimeter fence in a single bound. Peter Biello: Give us a call 1 800 8 9 2 6 4 7 7 you can also send us an email exchange at an HP morgue. We mentioned that one cat that was hit by a car where it has it that it was a male looking for me. I think that you probably are. Here's where sightings have occurred since. As far as I could tell there was a positive DNA sequence coming from the scat sample Patrick. There was no sign of it. We'd be inundated with scouts in the past when newspaper articles have been written about DNA and scouts. Yet this young male traveled about 1,800 miles. Peter Biello: Yeah well what do you think Pat is. Thank you. Someone photographed the animal at the Brunswick School on Greenwich, Connecticut about 40 miles away on June 5th. I've collected scat samples I've got several in my collection. Mountain lions when they show up they leave evidence. Re(1): ANOTHER female disperser in addition to the one BELOW! It was not a bobcat. Not one picture of him online while the person meet with us. Caller: Yeah. Rick your thoughts. If the observer claims to have seen a Mountain Lion more than once, it is nearly certain they have not. 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. All the latest news and updates of New England Mountain Lion Sighting Bulletin Board's Message Board. and territorial animals are much more inclined to create a problem with passer bys than dispersing animals in fact I'd be totally shocked if a dispersal would encounter with a human purposefully unless they had already had some type of training to do so. 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. No I saw a camel. He drove me out to the spot. There are two records of mountain lions in Massachusetts thatmeet the evidence requirements. Both labs confirmed the sample came from a mountain lion. And the cougar embodies that. Each person had their own copy and now it was identify the trees the species of tree matched. It's conceivable, he said, that like the 2011 mountain lion, which took a two-year journey to Connecticut from South Dakota, others might occasionally turn up here. Today, mountain lions are found in the mountainous regions of the West. Fish and Wildlife Service unofficially declared the Eastern cougar extinct. Yet I also remembered something Sue Morse had told me months before, as we sat in her living room drinking beer and chatting cats. The states beautiful wilderness and mountainous terrain are prime mountain lion habitats. Let us know your story and share your photos! Mountain lions live in the state. Open MF, 8 a.m.4 p.m. (closed noon12:30 for lunch). Patrick Tate: No downward pressure at all I think actually Sean turned up and we found the evidence there a number of people would finally say finally we can put this debate to bed. 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. I don't know if she still is. So I think in that story there's there's something for the believers and the nonbelievers and I and you know Mark L. Brock is who is a gentleman with the cougar Network told me this story is evidence that that if they were here we would know about it. You don't know what's going on. Mike you're on the air. This is a machine-generated transcript, and may contain errors. Which goes back to the Connecticut Connecticut cat and what not. Let's look for other evidence. We know that the closest established breeding population is in either the Everglades of Florida theres a small population down there and then out in South Dakota and Nebraska. Morse introduced me to her cat, Allister, whom she referred to as her portable puma. Then she fetched me a beer. I was able to look up the particulars and photos online. But you've done some reporting on this. So I want to start the program with a comment from someone who is not in the studio with us today. Also, Bobcats are spreading into areas in which they have not been seen before. Much as I liked Ottmann and Betty, and much as I found some of their evidence compelling, I was struggling to reconcile their more provocative claims with the restraint expressed by the many other experts Id spoken with. So the whole media hype about how scary mountain lions are should should go away immediately and that would be that I think the major thrust of educating folks about these casualties vs.. Sam Evans-Brown: Sam go ahead. I just stood there just a second and I came to a complete stop and then I ran away. hen 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. Learn more about the two confirmed reports of mountain lions in Massachusetts atmass.gov/dfw/mt-lions. They certainly have, you know, lower levels of conflicts and home entries than we do here in Connecticut. Sam Evans-Brown: You know the North America had a number of large predator species when humans first arrived in the continent. By mid-19th century, forests made up only about 30 percent of New England (it's notable that today that number stands at approximately 80 percent, nearer to what it was when cougars thrived here). Morse is a Vermont-based naturalist and the founder of Keeping Track, a nonprofit that trains people in the scientific protocols needed to detect, interpret, record, and monitor wildlife tracks and signs. I live pretty much on the town line of Greenfield just a couple of miles down in the Greenfield. Its a cool story with how far that animal walked. It's good to talk to you. I think they never left, Ottmann piped in. Sam. A 2011 article from The Post and Courier revealed a string of unconfirmed mountain lion sightings in the Lowcountry. What do you think that. I found a second scat scent both to him. So do they. Sam Evans-Brown: So Tim so this cat's been been referenced a couple of times I think we should talk about it specifically lay the whole story out for folks who haven't heard the story because it's actually I think really indicative of a lot of stuff for talking about. Caller: Oh hi. We even had a sighting someone here at DEEP, in my office, was convinced they saw a mountain lion. The number 1 800 8 9 2 6 4 7 7 so promised a discussion about conspiracy theories.

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