If you have them email exchange at an HP board or give us a call to tell us your story. Before I departed the Old Well Tavern, Bo Ottmann offered to lead me on a walk into an adjacent stretch of woods, where, he assured me, cougars might be found. Mistaken reports of mountain lions in Massachusetts are most commonly Bobcats. Right. And it was you know 10 or 12 people saw it all at once. brings a lot of. We'd love to have you in the queue. However the scarring on the trees did not and the angles were off. I would always share potential sightings with Tom French, Ph.D., assistant director of MassWildlifes Natural Heritage and Endangered Species Program for nearly 35 years, now retired. He wore red suspenders and a baseball cap. Attracting the black swallowtail butterfly to your yard is as easy as planting parsley and carrots in your garden. We need cougars and we need wolves back in the Northeast, because a landscape of fear is a well-balanced landscape.. Nowadays, many reports include photographic evidence, thanks to camera phones and trail cameras. It had rained previously. As I tried to get a picture of it so there was it was definitely we looked up all the pictures and it was definitely not a bobcat or anything else being it looked just like a mountain lion. There is also a small population in southern Florida. California mountain lion slaughters 27 lambs but did not eat a single one However, it is more likely to be one of the pumas that roam the country. They certainly have, you know, lower levels of conflicts and home entries than we do here in Connecticut. Someone photographed the animal at the Brunswick School on Greenwich, Connecticut about 40 miles away on June 5th. Caller: Oh hi. (You can download the article frommass.gov/doc/mountain-lions-in-massachusetts-distinguishing-fiction-from-the-facts/download.) 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. It doesn't happen as much anymore. This assessment is echoed by the aforementioned Christopher Spatz, who has been studying cougars for better than 20 years. A harvest is kind of twofold. I dont ever say to people, Thats not what you saw. I say, I hope you saw one, Spatz told me when I called him at his home in upstate New York. 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. Here's where sightings have occurred since. So there's even debate about that very subject. I've actually had to walk in on one or two now and look at what was going on and figured out what was going on. What color was it? The last three eastern cougars were killed in 1930 in Tennessee . Please remove any contact information or personal data from your feedback. I have no choice but to take this seriously, he told me. Patrick Tate: So I agree with what Sam said in part that their ability to go undetected for amount of time but ultimately it was detected. Within six weeks, he continued, I was getting off the plane in Jackson Hole for a national mountain lion conference. Morse introduced me to her cat, Allister, whom she referred to as her portable puma. Then she fetched me a beer. So let's let's go to the phones. 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. He has also reported for the Marketplace Morning Report. Peter Biello: Oh okay. 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. The animal was shot in the town of Barnard on Thanksgiving Day 1881 by a man named Alexander Crowell. Patrick Tate: Well. MassWildlifecannot investigate or confirm mountain lion reports without any evidence. Does not test random Scouts. There were pine cones on window sills, a well-used hatchet and a variety of animal figurines on display, and, near the television, a stack of videos including. Caller: It had just left that field and was out. It doesn't make much sense because you know mountain lions are as we as we said before. Patrick Tate: I've from all the situations I've read and learned about wildlife. Let's go now to to Kyle in Keene I believe Kyle is this Kyle Jarvis from the Keene Sentinel a former reporter and former reporter. No that's a little bit outside the range. Q: Can you give me an idea if wild turkeyscan fly? She still produces shows with Colin and the team when her schedule allows. Caller: Absolutely. The reasons for this conspiracy vary depending upon whom you talk to, but they coalesce around the idea that wildlife agencies would be inconvenienced by the cougars presence, as theyd be forced to respond in ways that would tax their resources. Less than a year later I found a scat on the swamp range and I was working at the time with a fellow at the Michigan wildlife habitat Federation. Any sense of of whether or not mountain lions are sort of wary of more population dense areas like like the one he was describing Rick. Caller: I do. The big cat has been extinct at least the eastern mountain lion has been extinct here since the mid 80s hundreds. And to anyone listening I would just say you know fishing game who wants proof right. Sam Evans-Brown: And when we talk about subspecies this actually leads to to an interesting tangent which is that the field of biology recently has been sort of revolutionized by the use of DNA to determine what subspecies are. Watch. Thank you. Peter Biello: I did mention four feet nose to tail would be kind of small for a mountain lion. John is calling from Bennington. If theyre in one, theyre in the other.. I saw that had this giant the bobcat had this giant sweeping which is John Bobcat don't have big sweeping tails. I hope she's listening and she had spoke to a lot of different people ended up having a couple of sightings of her alone without sort of by accident. Peter Biello: Ok. Besides, Ottmann had revealed that hed been charged by a bear in this same piece of woods, and I felt conflicted about diverting my gaze from the underbrush. What do you think that. Michael Brindley is our program manager our producers our Jessica Hunt and Christina Phillips and our theme music was composed by Bob Lord. It seems like nothing will kill them! A lock icon ( MassWildlife uses evidence-based criteria for confirming reports of mountain lions. ghost. Sue Morse: First and foremost if you have color or if you could see details of color look at the front of the face around the Pumas muzzle the muzzle itself is pure white. People often get very emotional about it, Hawley says. Which goes back to the Connecticut Connecticut cat and what not. Sue Morse: The big cat really commands the utmost respect not so much fear but fascination. From came from out west they tracked it all the way back to the Black Hills in the Dakotas. Have you heard stories do you have questions about the mountain line. Peter Biello: Well hey Rob. 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. We live around Cold Springs Campground and it was undeniably a mountain lion. We're going to talk a little bit more about habitat first but then we'll get into sightings. A 140-pound male mountain lion was hit by a car and killed in 2011 in Milford, Connecticut. 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. Caller: And the more I thought about it the color of it it was definitely not a bobcat. Ottmann grew up and still lives just minutes from the tavern; his familiarity with the establishment was obvious (after we met in the parking lot, he led me into the building through the kitchen, greeting each of the staff by name). But along the lines of the conspiracy theories as you mentioned earlier there there was a bit of a sense on behalf of what I'll call the promo online community who felt that fishing gain maybe not even so much in a spoken policy but maybe sort of an unspoken policy did not want to find themselves in a situation where they had to spend money to create a management plan and so forth. The big cat has been extinct here since the mid-1800s. Yet I also remembered something Sue Morse had told me months before, as we sat in her living room drinking beer and chatting cats. Phone number 1 800. McEnroe: Scientifically, this is a case where absence of evidence is kind of evidence of absence, right? 172. MassWildlife uses evidence-based criteria to confirm reports of mountain lions and does not investigate or confirm reports without evidence. The feedback will only be used for improving the website. And I just said I saw I saw they from behind the shoulder all the way past the long tail. Still, sightings are common. It may not surprise you to learn that I was quite intrigued by this third group. Is there a way we can learn more about these dispersing mountain lions that may travel through the Granite State and that I would ask you certainly part about whether or not a he's spending too much time chasing down these kind of false leads or B would rather be doing something else that is more informative to whether or not we actually have or can prove that we have dispersing mountain lions in the state. Okay. In 2011, a dead western mountain lion was found in Connecticut after it got hit by a car. The last catamount killed in Vermont stands under glass just inside the doors to the Vermont Historical Museum in Montpelier, a hop, skip, and a jump down the block from the statehouse. If these animals are not in the habitat, what we see is an overabundance of herbivores., The ecologist John Laundre, who has spent 35 years studying cougars, concurs. We'll hear from her periodically through the show. Just. I can't. Patrick Tate: So it's very typical. I wish I could see it again! Ottmann nodded. And so when they come to him with a sighting, hes prepared to believe. N.H.'s Fish and Game department says there's no proof. So we're fixated on natural but there's other possibilities. 2023 Yankee publishing, Inc., An Employee-Owned company, all rights reserved.

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