Peter Biello: So a little bit of nostalgia maybe for it for a better world embodied in the mountain lion. This mountain lion was documented by DNA samples from Minnesota and Wisconsin between December 2009 and early 2010. 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. 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. Explore. 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: It is possible that cougars of unknown origin may be breeding to a limited extent in Vermont. Three females confirmed well ahead of predictioins, Re(1): Major news! Someone photographed the animal at the Brunswick School on Greenwich, Connecticut about 40 miles away on June 5th. A 2011 article from The Post and Courier revealed a string of unconfirmed mountain lion sightings in the Lowcountry. We'd love to have you in the queue. Like why would you want one wildlife. Re (1): Alleged Athol MA picture - By Cici September 9, 2016 at 12:41:30 PM. In 2011, a dead western mountain lion was found in Connecticut after it got hit by a car. As a carnivore biologist, Hawley says he would love it if mountain lions were here. Rick van de Poll: Well education is the real important thrust of of what all of us do as biologists and Game Managers and to make sure that a things like what Sam was saying that in spite of what you believe the mountain lions will not eat your children they will not steal your pets from your backyard and they will not necessarily be seen by you unless you're extremely lucky. Are there other powers that be worried that scary mountain lions will scare off people from camping in New Hampshire. Both cases meet the evidence requirements of MassWildlife. And why would they what. I was able to look up the particulars and photos online. So and so the idea that they can follow up on every individual sighting is just crazy right. 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. If mountain lions returned to Massachusetts, there is no need to update current forest management practices. So I learned about what Rick just reported through a heart of heart of New Hampshire a letter and. 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? 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. Well I can't tell you what you saw. 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. A lock icon ( Now again I don't know that there's anything to that. There have been several sightings of mountain lions in New Hampshire recently. Case 1 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. It's one piece that he wrote, that I have used in discussing the possibility of hard-to-believe sightings and I quote, People are always hopeful that what they have seen is something unusual, rather than just common and mundane..
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