Box 1896 Sacramento, CA 95812 916-442-2666 info@mountainlion.org. Height at shoulder: 25-30 in. 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. Once at dusk driving in the Berkshires, he saw what he initially thought was a cat-like creature that was far bigger than a bobcat leap across the road. are received by 1:00 p.m. CT, June 9, 2020 by Sheri Henderson at the Lincoln . 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. And even the home entries are kind of changing. I have heard several accounts from sober, sane, intelligent people who have seen them (especially a latre, good friend who was a very competent spokesman and hunter.). Lizzie Post Would Like Your Attention. 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. Rego says that the way bobcats stride when they run, often times a rear leg is kicked up in the back and that could be mistaken for a long tail.. Harrigan is 72 and lives just outside the northern New Hampshire town of Colebrook; he has a long, craggy face that seems almost to have molded itself after the mountainous landscape of his home state. He knew it was only a matter of time. However, when I asked the room of 200 or so people how many believe they had seen a mountain lion/cougar/puma/catamount, hands shot up all around the room about 25% of those present. A quick Google search reveals that the theory is not limited to Connecticut and similar tales are told throughout the Northeast. I do this shit.. Anyone can get fooled. Several years ago, I was bicycling with a buddy up Quabbin Reservoirs Administration Rd. My wife is not a wildlife expert, but is not prone to flights of fancy. Zillow has 20 photos of this $299,000 3 beds, 2 baths, -- sqft single family home located at 2439 Adams Farm Ct, Snow Camp, NC 27349 built in 1999. But right now youre dealing with top-notch guys. I could hear the steady rush of traffic on Route 315. No need since so we guess it has moved on from the northeast corner of Connecticut. Still, sightings are common. Still, Spatz acknowledged that the word hope is very different from the word believe. Even though the experts say there arent any mountain lions in CT, there are. Concerned for people / pets and a school just down the street, stopped to report the sighting where dispatch told me that if I did not have proof they would not respond. The main habitat requirement for mountain lions is stalking cover to successfully hunt prey. An Arkansas woman captured a big cat on her doorbell camera that she believes is a mountain lion or cougar. Part of this belief is rooted in his journalistic experience, which across the decades has cultivated his nose for sincerity. If you have a worldview in which the government is conspiring to do weird stuff, than thats what youre going to see, and all the evidence is going to point to exactly what you believe, he says. According to the Connecticut DEEP, the bobcat is the only wild cat found in Connecticut. Hawley said the last confirmed mountain lion sighting in the state was one that was killed on the Merritt Parkway in 2011 when a car struck the animal near Exit 55. 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. A full-sized mountain line was photographed on the campus of the Brunswick School in Greenwich on Sunday, along with a matching paw print and a 9-inch lion dropping that seals the scientific deal. Whenever I drive up and through my home state of Vermont, I look into the hills that surround me that have no sign of development for miles and miles. This is always been a debate however as someone who is an avid Outdoorsman I can say with certainty I know of at least 12 people that have personal accounts of seeing mountain lion in Central and Western Massachusetts. Probably because of all the hunters that would be out trying to get their trophy and endangering others. Listen & Learn. Yes I have seen several pictures on game cameras from people in Massachusetts in Central and western Mass that do have mountain lions on their game camera so please dont be ignorant. my husband tapped my leg and asked what is that crossing the road It was a Cougar tan in color long tail which had a slight curl upward .I wish I had my camera to prove it but I know We saw it. Mountain Lions:100 all the way up to 200 pounds, Mountain Lions:Can grow up to 6 feet long. What set it off was a National Geographic special on mountain lions in California, right after my daughter and I had two encounters in my driveway, Betty told me. Honestly, leaving this out of your article would seem to perpetuate the notion that there is a conspiracy to keep us all in ignorance. 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). How did I know? And the clincher, What would you say was the most distinguishing feature? The bobcat population has since recovered due to improving forest habitat conditions and legal protections. on route to stone tower on Quabbin Hill. Didnt it? People often get very emotional about it, Hawley says. It was definitely a cougar. However, many of their claimsespecially Mr. Bettys contention of roughly a dozen personal sightings in New Englandare hard to take seriously. But further inspection revealed it was a very large coyote. Hear the full interview: Megafauna mania: our obsession with mountain lions and other large predators, Connecticut Dept. They are here & ..just a matter of time with photo or kill on a highway/road. Matthew Johnson/Vermont Historical Society. , located in the golf course community of Coyote Lakes. I knew it was a cat track because the tracks were in a straight line and no signs of claws like you would see with a coyote track. he recalls. Bill Betty of Matunuck, a mountain lion expert who spoke at the South Kingstown Land Trust barn Oct. 30, thinks there is ample evidence pointing to the existence of a mountain lion in Matunuck. Hes even had his own false sighting. A month after the cat was struck and killed, researchers confirmed it had traveled more than 1,500 miles from the Black Hills of South Dakota. So why does the conspiracy theory that theyre here in significant numbers persist? Bobcats: Though technically a type of lynx, they are distinct from other species of lynx such as the Canadian lynx. He drove me out to the spot. It has nothing to do with trophy hunting, public safety, etc. Working in the 1980s in southern California, where there are cougars, biologist Paul Beier said that 95 percent of cougar sightings they investigated turned out to be misidentifications. Based on this blurry photo and pawprints, DEEP confirmed it was likely a mountain lion. Yes, of course they are here, transients. 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. This assessment is echoed by the aforementioned Christopher Spatz, who has been studying cougars for better than 20 years. Or at least theyre not supposed to be. It is healthy to have respect and caution, but fear shouldnt drive ecological decision making. (Attacks #12 and 13; death #6) 35-year-old Mark Jeffrey Reynolds, an amateur mountain bike racer, was reported as being killed by a mountain lion sometime after 1:25 p.m. at Whiting Ranch Wilderness Park in southern Orange County. Hes even had his own false sighting. But a high-profile sighting in 2011 stirred up renewed interest in the animals here, when a mountain lion from South Dakota was hit and killed by a car on a Connecticut highway. As a carnivore biologist, Hawley says he would love it if mountain lions were here. It used to be that a bear would go into a house when someone wasnt home. ), 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. Betsy started as an intern at WNPR in 2011 after earning a Master's Degree in American and Museum Studies from Trinity College. Even in the controlled environment of a lab, the truth about Eastern cougars seems to be almost willfully eluding its seekers. In yet another variant, DEEP is said to be helicoptering mountain lions in to help control the deer population. Despite frequent claims, there has only been one confirmed mountain lion sighting since the late 1800s here. In Florida, where mountain lions are known as panthers, dozens are killed each year by cars. That had to be a mountain lion. I was driving to work in Greenfield heading south on 10 and had just taken a right hand turn at the junction when the big cat crossed the road in front of me. The regions top predator, the coyote, is classified by biologists as a mesopredator (a type that in New England includes skunks and raccoons), which feeds primarily on smaller animals. McEnroe: It is an uphill challenge. Another possibility is to use the dosdude1 patcher to upgrade the MacBook to Sierra, this being generally possible on any unsupported machines mid-2008 or later. 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? Police Chief. In 2011, genetic testing confirmed that a mountain lion originated in South Dakota and traveled more than 1,500 miles before being struck by a car on the Merritt Parkway, according to Reuters. Verified Mountain Lion-Human Attacks. It continues in Connecticut, where that South Dakota cat was killed in 2011, and in Massachusetts, despite two credible reports in the past quarter century (in one case, DNA-confirmed scat; in the other, verified tracks). The range of a Mountain Lion may cover 25 to 785 square miles. And there are different schools of thought about that. A harvest is kind of twofold. Ottmann nodded. It lowers the population in a way thats not going to affect the long-term population. If a young male Cougar disperses East, instead of West, they're going to keep walking because they're going tokeep looking for an area where they can find a mate, he said. However, Hawley noted that Eastern bobcats tend to have very few spots compared to bobcats that are out west or even in the Midwest. If they have spots, they are typically in the white, underside part of the bodies or on the insides of their legs. DEEP believes their numbers have increased in recent years. Hawley: Wildlife biologists across the United States know where the current mountain lion range is. Someone told New Canaan police that a mountain lion was spotted on Gerdes Road, just north of the Darien-New Canaan border, at about 6 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 14.. If these people say they saw something, Im going to listen., If theres one thing people on all sides of the debate can agree on, its that a breeding population of cougars is essential to the overall health of New Englands ecosystems, which currently lack an apex predator. They are named for their short (bobbed) tail which is often about six inches in length. Have a question or comment? The reason why experts wont admit to a breeding population existing is that there is NO PROOF. Within six weeks, he continued, I was getting off the plane in Jackson Hole for a national mountain lion conference. 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? When I shared their story with the staff at the center where my sister lived, I expected surprise and interested. We need [an apex] predator back on the land, Sue Morse told me. Bobcats: Whiskered face and are gray in the winter and tan in the summer, with black spots on their fur that are not always visible. I have no choice but to take this seriously, he told me. Defenders of Wildlife developed funding to support wolf predation on cattle which I believe worked. More recently, unexplained animal sightings in Connecticut and other states became more and more associated with mountain lions. But sometimes, instead of mountain lions, people thought they saw other creatures in the Connecticut woods, of which authorities were supposedly aware. Theyre here. Habitat. on the regular. And theyre not going to find one, because the females don't disperse like that. 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. We clearly have migratory male cougars coming through. Mountain lions are solitary animals, traveling alone except during mating season or when a female is supporting young. What to know about unconfirmed mountain lion sightings in CT. Nicole Funaro was formerly a statewide trending reporter for Hearst Connecticut Media Group, covering everything from the most fascinating properties for sale in the Nutmeg State to the latest movie filming in the state. All of which is to say that if Alexander Crowell wasnt afraid on that long-ago Thanksgiving Day, he probably should have been. She was calling from a trail in Pootatuck State Forest, the 1,200-acre strip of nature occupying the hills above Squantz Pond in New Fairfield. There have been several sightings of mountain lions in New Hampshire recently. Lets learn to live alongside this very large animal is one of the schools of thought. And yet there I was, on a Saturday in early November, crammed into a booth with Bo Ottmann, 48, and Bill Betty, 72, of Cougars of the Valley, the organization that Ottmann founded in 2007 to gather evidence of and alert the public to the big cats living among us. Mountain lion hunting tags were sold in 2013 through a lottery system for the state's first lion hunt. A witness captured the terrifying moment when a deputy escaped the jaws of a mountain lion in Colorado. Jason Hawley says his office gets lots of calls about mountain lions each year. Recall a few years back, a guy in a kayak off Horseneck Beach in Westport, MA, was tracked by a large fin. CNN . Mountain Lions: They are officially extinct. Early spring 2019 I caught a glimpse of one entering over grown brush on the side of the road very very early in the morning. The one thing that jumped out at her the tail. In a Facebook poll, 84 people said they believe mountain lions are in the county, 37 say they've personally seen them, and three people say they do not exist. Not really, Rego says. Theres also the lack of visual evidence, more glaring each passing year as so many hikers and hunters now carry phones with cameras. It was a bright sunny summer day. Hawley, a wildlife biologist with the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, says data dont support a breeding population of mountain lions in Connecticut. Middlebury, Vermont | Could You Live Here? Sometimes referred to as the ghosts of the forest, mountain lions or cougars are stealthy hunters that are hard to spot, even in areas they are known to inhabit. I mentioned this to a neighbor who spotted one a few miles away. The Mountain Lion is a large, slender cat with a smallish head and noticeably long tail. As a carnivore biologist, Hawley says he would love it if mountain lions were here. And it was this curiosity that led me to the Old Well Tavern in Simsbury, Connecticut, at a time of day (11:30 a.m.) that does not normally find me ensconced in the dim confines of a drinking establishment. You cansubscribe here, orfind the current issue on sale here. And were one of the most densely populated states as far as humans. So theres fresh mud. Its definitely a problem thats only going to get worse. Betty folded his arms across his chest, where they rose and fell and rose again with his breathing. Earlier in the year, Id attended one of these presentations, and even in the tiny village of Woodbury, Vermont, on a stiflingly hot summer evening, nearly 100 people showed up to hear her speak and see her photographs (Morse is a magnificent wildlife photographer). Given the long, shared border between these provinces and New England, along with plentiful evidence that other species cross this border regularly, it seems entirely possible that cougars would also engage in international travel. Having retired from a career at General Dynamics, he devotes many of his waking hours to cougar research, a passion hes cultivated for nearly twodecades. 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. Rumors of their hidden presence persisted. The official word is that mountain lions were declared extinct in Connecticut back in the late 1800s but sightings have become much more prevalent. The real reason that they wont admit that a breeding population exists, is that listing a population of endangered species would wreak ECONOMIC havoc in a number of arenas, mostly logging/forestry. 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. 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. And so when they come to him with a sighting, hes prepared to believe. Weve got a growing bear population. Facebook . I think I may have pissed her off since I was up in that area X2 this week. But, yes, thats exactly what it was. Though promoted as a once in a lifetime event and offered at the dirt-cheap price of $15, only 395 Nebraskans applied for the chance to hunt a mountain lion. Mountain lion spotted in East Haddam - YouTube 0:00 / 2:17 Mountain lion spotted in East Haddam 6,872 views Apr 27, 2012 22 Dislike Share Save WTNH News8 135K subscribers A Mountain lion. They are there and thriving!!!! Action Alerts. July 20, 2022. Here in southern Utah, lions have been known to occupy home ranges as large as 513 square miles. 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For decades, wildlife experts should have been seeing occasional scat and paw prints in the winter. It has a long, black-tipped tail and black . The police and everyone else just shook their heads but she to her dying breath said she saw a mountain lion in Lexington MA. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This setting should only be used on your home or work computer. She was also the voice behind the weekly Connecticut Real Estate newsletter by CT Insider. Mountain lions have traveled through Fairfield County in the past. Even so, Abbott has heard of mountain lion sightings from what he deems reliable sources and believes its possible that other animals have made the difficult, some say almost miraculous trek, from the West to Connecticut. Below are some of the first-hand. Also known as cougars, panthers or pumas, mountain lions range in color from tan to grey, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service. Hawley: Wildlife biologists across the United States know where the current mountain lion range is. There are an estimated 3,000 - 7,000 Mountain lions in Colorado. This isnt to say she believes none of these animals has stepped foot on New England soil over the past century. Next to the jaguar, it is the largest North American cat. That maybe, just maybe, what my wife and others saw wasnt a bobcat that seemed bigger in the thrill of the moment, but a real, honest-to-goodness mountain lion, a long-lost ghost of the forest. Sue Morse, the founder and science director of Keeping Track, a Vermont-based organization dedicated to protecting wildlife habitats, has studied mountain lions over her career as a naturalist, and says the majority of cougar sightings in the Northeast are misidentifications. Anyone can get fooled. To date, Keeping Track has helped conserve 40,000 acres in 12 states and inQuebec. Wright, however, didnt agree with his mentor and began writing publicly about mountain lions in the East. On the idea of bear hunting in Connecticut. Although there are numerous reported sightings of mountain lions in Connecticut every year, the animals have actually been extinct in this state for more than a century. Osage County leads the list with seven, followed by Cimarron County with six. Beautiful creature. The young typically remain with their mother for 2 years. Im gonna get hammered for it, he sighed. Theyll say, Hey, you can see in the picture that it has a long tail, and when I look at the picture, I say, I see how you would see that because they way these cats walk, theyll kind of stand and trail their rear leg. The next week, on June 11, the cat was hit and killed by an, on the Wilbur Cross Parkway in Milford. Could UConn women's basketball be back to 'square one' with seven available players at Seton Hall? 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