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. It's rare to see an up-close look at mountain lion behavior out in the wild, let alone a whole family. Many on both sides of the cougar debate beileve that New Englands natural habitat would benefit from having an apex predator in the ecosystem again. Massachusetts and several other New England states have bear hunting, or harvest, seasons, which proponents say help control populations. Almost every state has some sort of legend of something thats hiding somewhere, he says. They have a right to exist here and they contribute to healthier prey species. Officially, the last mountain lions were hunted to extinction here in the late 1800s. The key to Morses assertion can be found in the term breeding population. Although the fact that cougars have traveled through New England is irrefutable (a DNA-confirmed roadkill is hard to deny), Morse believes its unlikely that they have settled here and created a self-sustaining population. In yet another variant, DEEP is said to be helicoptering mountain lions in to help control the deer population. The photos were time-stamped December 7, 2020. #3. An attack is verified only when a physician, law enforcement officer or CDFW personnel determine the injuries were caused by a . There were caribou antlers mounted above the front doors, and the interior walls were covered in row upon row of books; a long table was piled high with still more books in seemingly random arrangements. And he said, This is where the mountain lion crossed. We walked in and there were fresh bobcat tracks in there. Its not my call. I live in New Milford and I saw one crossing the road in front of me when I stopped to get my mail from my mailbox. 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. The Mountain Lion is a large, slender cat with a smallish head and noticeably long tail. In the second camp, there are those issuing the denials, pointing to the lack of photographic evidence, or the absence of tracks, or the simple truth that many people dont seem to know the difference between a cougar and a bobcat and a lynx and even, in some cases, a golden retriever. In Florida, where mountain lions are known as panthers, dozens are killed each year by cars. Hawley: Wildlife biologists across the United States know where the current mountain lion range is. Colin McEnroe is a radio host, newspaper columnist, magazine writer, author, playwright, lecturer, moderator, college instructor and occasional singer. LINCOLN, Neb. One day I most certainly watched him/her being chased up and down our chain link fence by a neighbors large dog who was barking insanely and couldnt quite catch the cougar, who finally made it away from the fence to escape the determined dog whod had him trapped up against it. Black panthers, which are not found in the U.S., are actually black jaguars or leopards. October 12, 2020 10:47 pm ET. We dont have extra money to do secret projects, he says. Probably because of all the hunters that would be out trying to get their trophy and endangering others. 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. We even had a sighting someone here at DEEP, in my office, was convinced they saw a mountain lion. Connecticut Dept. Males can reach up to two metres in length and weigh over 60 kilograms. Patrick's reporting has appeared on NPR's Morning Edition, Here & Now, and All Things Considered. Some might mistake the bobcat, which still lives in New England, for a cougareven though its tail is about 6 inches long andthe bigger cats is 3 feet or more. Diana Marchibroda and her miniature schnauzer froze in their tracks when the mountain lion stepped out of the woods last May. People clearly arent lying when they say they saw a cougar; [the sighting] has a profound effect on them.. Yet I also remembered something Sue Morse had told me months before, as we sat in her living room drinking beer and chatting cats. My daughter said to me thats the biggest cat Ive ever seen. There are no breeding cougars in New England and we do not need any. Hawley: That animal was documented. 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. A 140-pound male mountain lion was hit by a car and killed in 2011 in Milford, Connecticut. Adult males can be around 8 feet in length and weigh between 130 and 150 pounds, while adult females can be 7 feet long and weigh between 65 and 90 pounds. But what about the sightings in Connecticut that are made by experienced outdoorsmen and women, people who know the difference between bobcats and mountain lions? On a mountain lion that died on a Connecticut highway. Neither resemble a cougar! . There are no mountain lions in Connecticut, so why do we keep seeing them? 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. He soon developed a five-question litmus test: How far away were you? Young pumas dispersing from Western habitats are being killed at the source, compromising the Easts critical opportunity for ecosystem health and the return of an apex carnivore., Regardless of where they are found, or whether people want to hunt or protect them, people are enchanted by mountain lions. Rego says that if there were many other animals like the 2011 cat that died in Milford, there would be more visual or physical evidence. I was outdoor with my two pugs and quickly scooped them up and brought them in the house. She adds, I think its because a lot of people are fascinated by wild cats; they are the embodiment of the wild.. That's not to say that pits are not formidable dogs, they are. The official word is that mountain lions were declared extinct in Connecticut back in the late 1800s but sightings have become much more prevalent. And its not just Vermont. They also want to foster the formation and protection of migration pathways for them and other animals to enter new states. Additional samples were collected and are pending DNA analysis. Today, instead of focusing on cougar sightings in Eastern states, many cougar enthusiasts want to protect the animal from being hunted in the regions in which they are currently found. I couldnt tell you how happy I would be if mountain lions were actually recolonizing the state of Connecticut, Hawley says, but its just not happening., Hawley spoke about bobcats, mountain lions and bears on The Colin McEnroe Show: Megafauna mania: our obsession with mountain lions and other large predators.. There have been several sightings of mountain lions in New Hampshire recently. For a solid four seconds, Marchibroda watched as a large, sleek cat standing about three feet tall with a long, curled tail crossed Skyline Drive near Gavel Springs Gap less than 100 feet in front of them. 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. 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. They can be seen at any time of the day or night, but are most active at dawn and dusk, corresponding with deer activity. Theres something in human nature to overestimate the size of wild animals we see, especially if we get a brief glance and if the animal is moving. He adds, Bobcats can get pretty large and some people believe they should have pretty visible spots and very often theyre pretty uniform in color. This is especially true in the summer, when my wifes sighting occurred. Hes also unafraid to take unpopular positions when he deems it necessary: Shortly before our meeting, hed signed a petition in favor of keeping ATVs off public roads. LOS ANGELES (AP) A mountain lion that was part of a National Park Service study was fatally struck by a vehicle on a highway near Southern California's Santa Monica Mountains. While recent mountain lion sightings in Connecticut have not been confirmed, if someone suspects they encountered a mountain lion, they should not run away, as it might spur a chase. [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. Bobcats top out at about 40 pounds (most are much lighter than that) and are only. Westford, MA, crossing Dunstable Rd from Long Sought For Pond into the woods. Indeed, in 2011, a male cougar was hit and killed by a car in Milford, Connecticut; through its DNA, wildlife biologists were able to trace the cat back to South Dakotas Black Hills, some 2,000 miles distant. When a cats around, its not hard to find evidence. They also generally have spots on their fur. She had seen an animal on foot in broad daylight. 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. When a group of officers arrived at a neighborhood in Loveland, Colorado . The mountain lion is also known as cougar, panther, or puma. Mountain lions, however, arent seen much in the Nutmeg State, even though several have reportedly been spotted around the Woodbridge area this month. Its documented through track surveys, aerial surveys, trapping and collaring surveys. As I turned a corner going north toward Waterbury, I saw the cat come up from the cornfield, saunter across the highway, turn and look in my direction and then amble off into the brush. According to the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, mountain lions became extinct in Connecticut in the 1800s, and bobcats are the only large wild cats found in the state. The expert opinion held up until a man was killed by a Great White not too far away. But it also sort of instills that fear, a healthy fear of humans and bears. Still, Spatz acknowledged that the word hope is very different from the word believe. The big cat traveled some 1,100 miles before his life came to a tragic end after being hit by a SUV on Route 15 in . The journey is chronicled in the 2016 book Heart of a Lion: A Lone Cats Walk Across America by William Stolzenburg. He published his first book in 1959, The Ghost of North America: The Story of the Eastern Panther. Then saw him a few more times from further away across the road and along the edge sometimes of the woods. By Cameron Arcand October 3, 2021 at 2:07pm. Mountain Lion Weight: 80-160 pounds Length: About 7-8 feet long Tail: 2-3 feet long (up to half of the total length) Identification The mountain lion is a large, slender cat, with a long rope-like tail. Today marks the date of our inception. Prior to becoming a reporter, he was the founding producer of Connecticut Public Radio's The Colin McEnroe Show, which began in 2009. This article appeared in theNovember 2019issue ofConnecticut Magazine. Otherwise, Hawley said cats like bobcats want nothing to do with people, and they will generally prey on chickens, small dogs or cats. For anyone stuck with using Mountain Lion, I can recommend without hesitation Waterfox Classic web browser. Initially, officials believed it had been released from a private handler. Not a bobcat 100% mountain lion and anybody that tries to think a bobcat as any resemblance to a mountain lion clearly has no idea about wildlife there are a lot of false reports because of this however they are without a doubt in part of New England and fish and game has as usual covered up despite coming out and following mountain lion tracks in the snow through the woods in Central Mass and finding a deer carcass 20 feet up in a tree and said to the landowner yep you probably have a mountain lion passing through and asked for the homeowner not to speak much about it furthermore DNA confirmation of a horse that was attacked in Petersham Massachusetts in the last several years and also the Quabbin Reservoir DNA were mountain lion without a doubt they are here. N.H.'s Fish and Game On the idea of bear hunting in Connecticut. "Connecticut is cougar heaven . In my mind, I went through all the nots. The recent social media posting of what was thought to be an image of a mountain lion in Prairie du Rocher brought skepticism . Next to the jaguar, it is the largest North American cat. And were one of the most densely populated states as far as humans. The big cat has been extinct here since the mid-1800s. Mountain lions also have tails that can grow up to 3 feet. Were getting more and more home entries every year. 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. 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. She IS, perhaps, the most knowledgeable and experienced person in this arena and I listened intently to her presentation (Richmond, VT 2018). One cat will leave more than 10,000 tracks per day. A mountain lion was confirmed by the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission through trail camera photos taken Dec. 9 east of Lincoln. I came across a dead adult deer carcass high up in an oak tree. The Department of Environmental . Bios and videos of the New Haven Register's 90th First-Team All-State Football players. 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. We need [an apex] predator back on the land, Sue Morse told me. I also know of someone who said they showed F&G a photo of one from a game camera in NH. Im always amazed at the sheer volume of people who are interested in cougars, more even than wolves, she says. Its distinctive featurethe one that sets it apart from other North American wild catsis its tail, which is thick and often as long as its body. Its length varies from five to . Instead, people should remain facing the cat and not turn their back on it, make noise and make themselves appear as large as possible by raising their arms over their heads with a jacket. His mentor, Aldo Leopold, a prominent wildlife biologist, also believed this, but felt if people learned about these populations, they would be hunted to extinction. She served as the Senior Producer for 'The Colin McEnroe Show' for several years before stepping down in 2021 and returning to her previous career as a registered nurse. More recently, unexplained animal sightings in Connecticut and other states became more and more associated with mountain lions. 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. This news story is funded in large part by Connecticut Publics Members But sometimes, instead of mountain lions, people thought they saw other creatures in the Connecticut woods, of which authorities were supposedly aware. Its documented through track surveys, aerial surveys, trapping and collaring surveys. Mountain lions are carnivores (meat eaters) and prey mostly on deer. 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. 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? He knew it was only a matter of time. Mountain lion hunting tags were sold in 2013 through a lottery system for the state's first lion hunt. And Im assuming whatever were doing right now, its not working. He and his clients were 100% sure of what they saw, and its very difficult to imagine any other animal being mistaken for a cougar in this case. Several years ago, I was bicycling with a buddy up Quabbin Reservoirs Administration Rd. 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). I saw an adult cougar/catamount twice within a two week period. Adult mountain lions can be 7-8 feet long, including their tails. I also had the vague notion that when it comes to cougars, people tend to sort themselves into one of three camps. My neighbors have seen several over the last 15-20 years. It lowers the population in a way thats not going to affect the long-term population. I was deer hunting with my father, it was in the fall about 7 years ago, in Barre Ma towards the Templeton Ma lines. On a mountain lion that died on a Connecticut highway. 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.. 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. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This setting should only be used on your home or work computer. Snowy winter AM just before us neighbor kids were heading to catch the bus, we (myself, my dad and neighbor) all watched a large cat cross the yard and leave huge prints and a distinct tail drag mark in the snow! 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. If theyre in one, theyre in the other.. Its quite an uphill challenge for us to manage that situation right now. 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. Hawley: Yeah. We also had bobcats that we saw quite often but I am positive that these were mountain lions! Apr 20, 2020. Joseph Uscinski, professor of political science at the University of Miami, and a conspiracy theory expert, says these types of theories are not uncommon. To Betty and Ottmann, the dominant narrative of the occasional itinerant cougar from the West is not particularly relevant to the facts on the ground. 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. What color was it? The last confirmed mountain lion sighting in Connecticut occurred in 2011. The first time was in the yard which was surrounded by woods. They set the stage for the exotics to move in, and this has a huge impact on our ecology, he said. Mountain Lions in New York. This was as clear as day had a long tail and long body I was thinking someones pet was on the loose or escaped form a zoo !! Connecticut Republicans are proposing to reduce the cost of electricity by removing state taxes and surcharges from customer invoices. 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. Its not a bear, not a dog, not a deer, not a bobcat. When you look at a state like Connecticut, with all the people we have here, all the trail cameras we have in the woods, all the cars we have driving you can imagine if we had an established population here in Connecticut, we would know about it pretty quickly. Friends that go backcountry skiing in Vermont have reported seeing tracks to me many times and I have seen pictures of the pawprints myself that look overwheming like a mountain lion. 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. Watch Live at 7:00 PM: The U.S. and the Holocaust, a film by Ken Burns | Screening & Panel Discussion . Two were confirmed in Logan County (2014 and 2015), and one . The guide told him earlier in the summer he and a couple clients had watched a moutain lion come down to the bank of the Deerfield River just upstream and take a small deer, fawn, drag it into the woods and it kill it, they could hear the screams of the deer as the cougar finished the job. Dogos have been DOCUMENTED killing mountain lion / wolf. Those are the two closest populations that we have here. I met with Morse at her home in Jericho. A threat to livestock, they were hunted out of the state and driven to parts more wild. Even though the experts say there arent any mountain lions in CT, there are. Patrick's reporting has appeared on NPR's Morning Edition, Here & Now, and All Things Considered. The U.S. Department of Agricultures Forest Service reports that mountain lions typical habitat is steep, rocky canyons or mountainous terrain, but they generally can be found wherever deer are present. You know, weve had so many home entries this year. 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.). People have been known to submit photos of real mountain lions taken in other states and claim they were taken in Connecticut. We clearly have migratory male cougars coming through. She served as the Senior Producer for 'The Colin McEnroe Show' for several years before stepping down in 2021 and returning to her previous career as a registered nurse. Because they are.. Mountain Lions: cougars, pumas, panthers and catamounts. On one side, there are those (as represented here by Sue Morse, Kim Royar, and Christopher Spatz, along with a number of others I spoke with) who contend that the lack of verifiable evidence is proof that the animals are not here. That had to be a mountain lion. . Matthew Johnson/Vermont Historical Society. You need to understand that every biologist that works for the state has a duty to deny mountain lions. I just heard from a fellow college student of a siting in Greenfield last fall and two in Colrain this spring. Bobcats: They are are the only wild cat found in the state and the most common in North America. However, the population declined in the early 1900's due to unregulated hunting and bounties were placed on mountain lions until 1966. He points out that when there was a real mountain lion in the state in 2011, his office publicized it immediately. But what might be his most compelling argument is that since this is Connecticut, the budget is too limited. Now the bears, they dont even care if people are home, theyll go right in the house. Vermont-based naturalist SueMorse has spent decades studying, tracking, andphotographing cougars outwest. One one occasion she had two little ones with her so their den must have been sort of closeby. They are here & ..just a matter of time with photo or kill on a highway/road. Hear the full interview: Megafauna mania: our obsession with mountain lions and other large predators, Connecticut Dept. Body length: 5 - 8 feet Ear length: 3 - 4 inches Tail length: 21 - 35 inches Weight: 90 - 160 pounds Behavior: Mountain lions are solitary animals except during the breeding season or when females are raising kittens. You wouldnt shake hands with a man like that, she said, and though she was smiling I could tell she was serious. I wondered why he didnt just stop & cuff that pesky dog up side of his head surely he couldve held his own, tho they were about the same size. Even in parts of the country where there are documented breeding populations of mountain lions, there are still many false reports. These highlights have been edited and condensed for length and clarity. The one thing that jumped out at her the tail. She lives near the end of a gravel road in a modest, low-slung house tucked into the flanks of the Green Mountains. As unlikely as it sounds, it was a more believable theory than some of the alternatives, among them that the cat was evidence of a breeding population in the state that was being kept secret by DEEP. I could hear the steady rush of traffic on Route 315. The MPD Animal Care and Control Unit's report includes a fact sheet about mountain lions, which has many common names, including "puma, catamount and panther.". Males (100 to 170 lbs.) 60-108 inches. 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. 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. Ive seen tracks (Downeast Maine) and others have seen them, plain as day. Honestly, leaving this out of your article would seem to perpetuate the notion that there is a conspiracy to keep us all in ignorance. Harold Davis just bought a new snowplow. His mention of these encounters was so matter-of-fact that I found myself nodding along. We really must establish first that these beautiful animals SHOULD be in every state that was once THEIR habitat. But you are talking Pacquiao (Pit) vs. Tyson (Dogo) in their prime. Hawley: I feel strongly that we need a harvest here in Connecticut. 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