So for our scientists to do the lumping and whatnot. Yes and you want to share what you learned. Sam Evans-Brown: So I just had two thoughts which is that we hear a lot of these stories and all of us here have heard these stories. At first, I thought it was pretty, but then it kept spreading on the edge of the woodlands next to my lawn. Case 1 M from Tree Hill author series presenting Diane lay back. So let's let's go to the phones. SUE Morse naturalist and science director for the organization keeping track. 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. Hear the full interview: Megafauna mania: our obsession with mountain lions and other large predators. I don't know if she still is. I'm Peter Biello. Evidence could include the body of a dead mountain lion or a live wild-captured animal; photos or video, in which a mountain lion can be identified and MassWildlife can confirm the location; DNA evidence from hair, scat, etc. Records suggest that cash bounties for cougar kills were relatively common in the late 1700s and early 1800s; in the Adirondacks, a trapper named Thomas Meacham was credited with 77 cougar kills. Morse has been tracking cougars for 45 years, mostly in the mountains of the West, where their existence is not in doubt. Let's look for other evidence. If it's someone that has an illegal captive animal that is accustomed to humans those leave a lot of evidence because they want to go around humans to find food meaning they're used to being fed by humans. What kind of animal is that. The big cat has been extinct here since the mid-1800s. And that's this morning at 10:00 here on NH PR. Patrick Tate: So Cougar Mountain Lion katama. Peter Biello: Thank you for sharing that. And so maybe before I go to you recommend I ask you Patrick Tate is the standard too high. A monthly donation of $5 makes a real difference. This is the exchange. These young males are tracking looking for mates and if they don't find a mate they just keep moving and moving and moving. So Pat you field a lot of calls about people seeing or reportedly seeing mountain lions. Caller: Oh hi. One cat will leave more than 10,000 tracks per day. There is also a small population in southern Florida. I have one that's more elaborate than that. And I just said I saw I saw they from behind the shoulder all the way past the long tail. 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. We we hear that there is allegedly a government conspiracy to deny the existence of mountain lions here in New Hampshire so I guess a local government conspiracy. Please remove any contact information or personal data from your feedback. She lives near the end of a gravel road in a modest, low-slung house tucked into the flanks of the Green Mountains. Still, sightings are common. Mountain lions remain an enigmatic animal for residents of New Hampshire, with New Hampshire Fish and Game reporting three to five sightings per week. He coined the term landscape of fear to describe the relationship between predator and prey in the wild. And the clincher, What would you say was the most distinguishing feature? That's why we always go back to the physical evidence to support what they're reporting. Weve done a lot of work over the years investigating sightings. Pinterest. Many people do not realize how large a grown Bobcat is. There are always rumors about what state fish and wildlife agencies in the eastern United States know about mountain lions. I mean they're a survivor. 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! Like why would you want one wildlife. County road and all of a sudden a big cat jumps out of the woods over a stone wall stood in the middle of the dirt road as I rode towards it. Peter Biello: And then it ran away okay. 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. And here we're talking about in this situation we're talking about it migrated from the West. Re (3): Mountain Lion sighting in Brookfield ct - By weather01089 February 1, 2016 at 04:55:52 PM. Anyways after three weeks I finally found the image on line on a field and stream photo contest and the explanation in the end was the person that set the camera out with another individual and they believed that someone who knew of the camera location saw the similarities put the can't picture on their SD card so it looked like that camera recorded the image that is. but won big 2night. Mass.gov is a registered service mark of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Please limit your input to 500 characters. On a dirt road. Are there other powers that be worried that scary mountain lions will scare off people from camping in New Hampshire. Do they travel. The DNA the DNA that they were able to pull from the cat suggested that it was a dispersed mountain lion that came. Do you get a lot of these these these things that end up being hoaxes. So now what's going on. That's too big for Bobcat. Evidence considered could include "the body of a dead mountain lion or a live wild-captured animal; photos or video, in which a mountain lion can be identified and MassWildlife can confirm the location; DNA evidence from hair, scat, etc. There have been only two caseswhere evidence supports the presence of a mountain lion in Massachusetts. You know, weve had so many home entries this year. So I just brought up the bobcat thing because the location is fascinating to me that that that location we have Bobcats existing but that location we have a mountain lion report because it's a developed area and which brings me back to earlier what I had said it's a bouncing ball. The Connecticut mountain lion is the best documented wild Mountain Lion in New England. They lived perhaps elsewhere in New England and they were just passing through and happened to have an encounter of some sort. Patrick Tate: Exactly I was gonna bring that up juvenile male of. 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 got home to my wife that a gene that you should have seen the cat. The USDA's Forest Service Wildlife Genetics Laboratory found that the animal came from South Dakota. And I was probably about a half a mile from downtown all village on the right. [An overabundance of deer] means our forests are getting older and older and not being replaced. He also points to the influx of invasive plant species in New England as evidence of an out-of-control deer population. It lowers the population in a way thats not going to affect the long-term population. A:I have hoped to see a big cat, that is bigger than a bobcat, since NatureWatch began getting reports in the 1980s. Here it is. Re(3): Webster update - Misunderstanding. I tracked cats and all the western states. I believe I saw one that's fine and I'm not looking for an immediate story. This is part of the cougar business. Re(1): Webster update - Misunderstanding! And today we're talking about the mysterious elusive mountain line with folks who know something about it. But also I think it proves the opposite point which is that sometimes they're pretty secretive because all the way from Minnesota where the where was the first time was picked up on a game camera to New York. Peter Biello: Yeah some of what she was saying sounds like it would require getting pretty close or at least having a nice zoom lens right Sam like. What time of day was it? NHPR is nonprofit and independent. 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. Major news! 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. Are there mountain lions in Massachusetts. Anytime at any HP broad dot org or subscribe to our podcast search Apple podcasts Google Play or stitcher for an HP bar exchange. It was a flooded area. Mountain lion sightings in New Hampshire have increased along with the bobcat population, said Tate. 2023 Yankee publishing, Inc., An Employee-Owned company, all rights reserved. So so they're just a very resilient species and they're pretty they're pretty neat. Fear for others and those two polarizing opinions on the situation is what I believe brings out mystique and Sam you know I take kind of a long view on this. Bats have no interest in your hair! A 140-pound male mountain lion was hit by a car and killed in 2011 in Milford, Connecticut. Seal pup cuteness best observed from a distance, 70% ineligible in start of NH Medicaid unwinding. Finally, in the third camp, there are the true believersthe cougar truthers, if you willthe men and women for whom the only logical conclusion (often reached after a significant investment of time, thought, and sometimes money) is that right here, right now, cougars live among us, feeding and breeding and rearing their young, and that suggesting otherwise is sheer ignorance, willful denial, or part of a mosaic of conspiracy. Sort of dropped onto the SD card of a camera he'd set up out in the wild. Megafauna mania: our obsession with mountain lions and other large predators., Megafauna mania: our obsession with mountain lions and other large predators, Manchester installs monitors to track air quality disparities. Confirmed reports of mountain lions in Massachusetts was declared extinct in 2011. John Holt's ideas were at first dismissed but he refused to be silent. Yeah 13 to 15 years ago 13 to 15 years ago. Give us a call if you have a question or comments or story about perhaps seeing a mountain lion here in New Hampshire. ghost, Re(1): didnt win the pwrball. We're gonna cue you up and bring into the program listeners in just a moment but I want to ask about the role that Mountain Lions play in the ecosystem we've been talking a lot about mountain lions traveling and being sort of hard to track as they move. Thanks for calling. So. They just end up in these places. There is no evidence of a reproducing mountain lion population in Massachusetts, MassWildlife says on its website. Peter Biello: So a little bit of nostalgia maybe for it for a better world embodied in the mountain lion. The big cat has been extinct here since the mid-1800s. An adult male bobcat can reach four feet in length and 35-40 pounds. They sent it already. Hawley:Were sort of stuck between a rock and a hard place right now. But my experience was that the majority of these accounts could not be taken lightly. Now that to me seemed to indicate that they had done the secondary workup that in my opinion proved the existence of probably a disperse or possibly from South Dakota like the one in 2011. 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. So one thing I'll add we're talking about natural dispensers but talking with the conservation officer in the 1980s they recall going to a residence telling a person you can live here but your mountain lion can't. 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. They certainly have, you know, lower levels of conflicts and home entries than we do here in Connecticut. And those are not the same things. And so far we have not had any positive mark lion scats or any DNA. Because while male cougars eventually strike out on their own and occasionally wander far from home, females are, as Morse puts it, hardwired to remain close to their mothers home range. In March 2011, DCR forester Steve Ward photographed a track trail in the snow near the Gate 8 boat launch area of Quabbin Reservoir. 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. Alleged Athol MA picture - By weather01089 September 8, 2016 at 12:35:45 PM. Even in the controlled environment of a lab, the truth about Eastern cougars seems to be almost willfully eluding its seekers. You need you need either a really good photograph or you need you know fresh scat that can be sent to a lab out West that can they can be identified there.

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