Peter Biello: This is the exchange on an PR. It is a gravel road and when the plows clear the road in the winter (or grade it in summer) they spread the invasive all along the edge. 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. Caller: It had just left that field and was out. Attracting the black swallowtail butterfly to your yard is as easy as planting parsley and carrots in your garden. There's always been physical evidence to prove those situations like hair or fur scat hair prints pictures of the animal print scat hair. When a cats around, its not hard to find evidence. However, there have been two confirmed reports of mountain lions in the state in the last 30 years. There have been several sightings of mountain lions in New Hampshire recently. Thanks for taking my call. Bearded, bowler hat, expression impenetrable behind facial hair and the stoicism of an earlier era. By now, I knew the answer to that one. ), or someones coworkers mother had seen one from the back porch of a summer camp back in 07 or maybe 08, and shed tried to get a picture but this was before she got her first iPhone, and by the time shed retrieved her camera from the living room, the cat was long gone. I mean that so many of them are false sightings we. So I just throwing that out there it's interesting. I'm sorry go ahead you're on the air. 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". 8 9 2 6 4 7 7. There was a lot of DNA evidence. He soon developed a five-question litmus test: How far away were you? Rick shaking his head so Rick now correct me please. They get a lot of media attention but compared to the the amount of times that a mountain lion could attack a person but doesn't because they don't typically view us as prey. Pat do they typically just move around a lot. And I think this is a really interesting story for a couple of reasons one is that it proves what Pat was saying which that basically from New York state where its traces was really picked up on a game camera around Lake George all the way down to Connecticut there was numerous. What's going on. Caller: It had to be a mountain lion convinced I was about 30. Have you heard stories do you have questions about the mountain line. And its not just Vermont. Absolutely there are a lot of folks out there who for some reason need to create something that raises a stir and gets the attention of the media etc.. And the cougar embodies that. 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. You don't know what's going on. 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? Ecosystem Management Consultants of New England, Ask Sam, and recently fielded question about mountain lions, Manchester installs monitors to track air quality disparities. Patrick Tate: So I'm not sure what subspecies of cat they're using to differentiate by those markings but once she was describing the White other face in the black. Peter Biello: Oh okay. 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. Mike thanks for your call. He also collects sighting reports on his blog, simply dubbed, "New Hampshire Mountain Lion." The blog still gets sightings, most recently on Aug. 3. 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. Fear is actually one of the most powerful ecological forces we know, and its a really important management tool., According to Laundre, the problems caused by a relatively fear-free ecosystem are not always obvious, in part because they can take decades to fully manifest. But one day. Peter Biello: Well Mike thanks very much for sharing your story. They run to about 25 mph. For who but we humans can look across the landscape and not acknowledge our role in the diminishment of cougars and the myriad ways in which we have knocked the landscape out of balance? Mountain lions weigh . But other hard evidence of the big cats presence is elusive. Betsy started as an intern at WNPR in 2011 after earning a Master's Degree in American and Museum Studies from Trinity College. We will use this information to improve this page. These highlights have been edited and condensed for length and clarity. And sometimes I've seen pictures of those where it's the question is What is that is that a bobcat. The tail leave is a giveaway but not everybody gets to see the tail. People go through great lengths to create hoaxes like this. Michael Brindley is our program manager our producers our Jessica Hunt and Christina Phillips and our theme music was composed by Bob Lord. If the observer claims to have seen a Mountain Lion more than once, it is nearly certain they have not. Email exchange it an HP fraud org or give us a call 1 800 8 9 2 6 4 7 7. If you missed part of today's program listen to the exchange. That animal had come from South Dakota, traveling more than 1,500 miles to get to New England.. So there's even debate about that very subject. 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. Sam Evans-Brown: Pretty well I was going to say it is nice to hear about how to identify the facial markings but probably I'd being a to identify the tracks is probably the more useful useful tool that one can have in their tool box. Im gonna get hammered for it, he sighed. Your support makes this news available to everyone. It traveled all the way from from you know Minnesota to New York without being so seen Patrick take. Mistaken reports of mountain lions in Massachusetts are most commonly Bobcats. Morse, 70, comports herself in a friendly and no-nonsense manner. Patrick Tate: I don't believe it is. In Massachusetts Wildlife magazine (No. We strolled across the tavern parking lot and ducked into the forest, where Ottmann maintains a portion of his $15,000 worth of wildlife recording equipment (hes had no luck capturing a cougar on camera, though, despite more than a decade of trying). Have you seen one. I had a resident in New Hampshire tell me a story of a mountain lion in the 1960s where a person who would come summer in New Hampshire and then live in a different part of the country in the winter had a trailer that was housing his mount line. It was some sort of a Lion Mountain Lion animal. Residents from Bedford to Berlin have been reporting sightings for years. Its not my call. Also, Bobcats are spreading into areas in which they have not been seen before. Today. And it was unmistakable. In March 2011, DCR forester Steve Ward photographed a track trail in the snow near the Gate 8 boat launch area of Quabbin Reservoir. There was the vaguest of trails, crisscrossed by deadfalls and a sharp-thorned bush that soon drew blood from Ottmanns right hand. Early in the morning. Peter Biello: Ok. Part of this belief is rooted in his journalistic experience, which across the decades has cultivated his nose for sincerity. Coyotes have also been mistaken for Mountain Lions. Sam Evans-Brown: One in fact Helena silver in that sort of tome that Rick van de Poll read from at the beginning is she. Sam what's the incentive for the government to deny allegedly. I didn't see him online. Mountain Lion report and as a biologist for the state that's a situation where if he said to me what did I see. It was his great coolness and daring (either that, or fear) that enabled Crowell to shoot the animal at a distance of one rod only (roughly 16 feet), first hitting it in the leg with his shotgun, then dispatching it with a bullet to the head from a borrowed rifle. There, too, is Crowells photograph, grainy and old: the hunter leaning against a tree stump, his head propped casually on his left hand, elbow to stump, shotgun cradled in the crook of his right arm. So for me as a person who's had the Bobcats right off my grits similar carries sticks to a bobcat The Long Tail obviously very different but those facial markings were overlapping for me. All of that remains unanswered but it is an extremely interesting question. And Rick Van de Poll naturalist and founder of ecosystem management consultants of New England. Spatz and Sue dont want to go where were going.. 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. We'll hear from her periodically through the show. Caller: Yeah. It's not a skinny rope like tail like a housecat. Mountain lion sightings in New Hampshire Whether mountain lions are in the Granite State has long been the subject of debate and conspiracy. A .mass.gov website belongs to an official government organization in Massachusetts. Peter Biello: The number is 1 800 8 9 2 6 4 7 7. To date, Keeping Track has helped conserve 40,000 acres in 12 states and inQuebec. Pat ruse and he was sampling doing DNA samples from cats in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. You could trace that was this same cat from point to point to point. John Holt's ideas were at first dismissed but he refused to be silent. We discuss what residents may have been seeing and what breeding mountain lion pairs would mean for our ecosystem. 3. Mountain lions dont usually travel more than 100 miles from where they are born. Right. Let us know your story and share your photos! In certain situations, the similarities in the silhouette are remarkable. I actually been interviewed a couple of times by reporters and with all due respect for the media you know facts aren't always communicated correctly. We'd love to have you in the queue. But my experience was that the majority of these accounts could not be taken lightly. Patrick Tate: Yes. 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. It is also called Poor mans Weatherglass because it needs a sunny day to open (similar to chicory, another plant, only much larger with blue flowers that were brought here from Europe). And so when they come to him with a sighting, hes prepared to believe. Cougar truthers are certain that the big cat is living and breeding again in New England. 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. MassWildlife uses evidence-based criteria for confirming reports of mountain lions. This isnt to say she believes none of these animals has stepped foot on New England soil over the past century. Coyotes have been mistaken for mountain lions. We have people eating dinner in their kitchen, they hear a noise, all of a sudden a bear walks in, so they run into their bedroom to get away from the bear, while the bears out ransacking their refrigerator. If you go on YouTube and search mount lion Pat you can see people patent their hundred pound kiddie like its regular mascot cat. Big cats used to be kept as pets in the U.K . John thanks. Give today. Put bluntly, Morse does not believe that New England is home to cougars. And then just up behind it you know at about 11 o'clock on one side and whatever that would be on the other side it's black. 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. So when we hear mountain lion there's also cougar there's wild cat there's Bobcat which is not a mountain lion maybe Patrick could you sort of spell out the different terms which are synonymous and which are completely different animals. A harvest is kind of twofold. Coyotes have been mistaken for mountain lions. John you're on the air. So what those ranges. On a dirt road. They certainly have, you know, lower levels of conflicts and home entries than we do here in Connecticut. Re (1): Mountain Lion sighting in Brookfield ct - By russ January 30, 2016 at 05:10:25 PM. We live around Cold Springs Campground and it was undeniably a mountain lion. 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. ghost, Re(3): didnt win the pwrball. Let's talk to Mike in Webster. Were there any differences between these two that we could have noticed right off. We want answers. And so we come to the great divide over cougars in New England. Peter Biello: This is the exchange on an HP yard today we're talking about the mysterious elusive majestic Mystic Mountain Lion. It was a flooded area. 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. I mean no doubt a seen Bobcat seen his stuff. This assessment is echoed by the aforementioned Christopher Spatz, who has been studying cougars for better than 20 years. Pat what do you think the mystique of the mountain lion. And theres another school of thought, Well, no, there just are too many of them probably we have to reduce that population somehow. Where do you fall in that whole continuum?
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