We actually have the largest subspecies of bobcat in the northern part of our state which they can get up to 40 and over 40 pounds which looks like an 80 pound the animal to visually and quite large. Patrick Tate: I've had hunters hang deer carcasses forbidding wildlife entries. I just stood there just a second and I came to a complete stop and then I ran away. WMUR NH Chronicle Mountain Lions in NH Part I and Part II. For instance, Floridas wildlife officials have a similar ghost cat: the black panther. Rick van de Poll: Rick your thoughts. Peter Biello: When did you allegedly see a mountain lion. And they asked me about the tail which I just did not remember that tail out of that whole experience. Peter Biello: The number is 1 800 8 9 2 6 4 7 7. About Us Media Kit Calendar of Events Volunteer Visit Learn Events Membership Support Your Visit BUY TICKETS Know Before You Go Directions and Information Our Animals Live Animal Exhibit Trail Hours and Admission Calendar of Events 8 9 2 6 4 7 7. You know I'm like seriously I can't get a picture of the thing but what it what it is. SUE Morse naturalist and science director for the organization keeping track. 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. Sam Evans-Brown: Well and I think and the last takeaway here is everyone I think probably agrees that any possible sightings that have been seen. There's no attraction. They create these big latrines that are very obvious. The second one was not only fresh but when I actually put my hand on it it was you know smelled like cat and I it's there's no denying a fresh mountain lions get if you can tell it every story that KOAT. John is calling from Bennington. And to anyone listening I would just say you know fishing game who wants proof right. This is a machine-generated transcript, and may contain errors. Sam Evans Brown. We'll push great photos to the front page. Author of The last woman in the forest on Saturday July 13th at 7 p.m. at Warner town hall Warner historical dawg. I don't know if she still is. Not one picture of him online while the person meet with us. I would say that there's going to be the truth in here somewhere. We're going to talk a little bit more about habitat first but then we'll get into sightings. On Oct. 10, he gave a slide talk called "Wild Cats of New Hampshire," which included the bobcat and the lynx. Sam Evans-Brown has been working for New Hampshire Public Radio since 2010, when he began as a freelancer. Nicholas Handy can be reached at 924-7172 ext. So hey, just me shooting from the hip, maybe there are a couple mountain lions skulking about. And I can recall its information but I can't confirm or verify anything. And Rick van de Poll naturalist and founder of ecosystem management consultants of New England. So I would put this in the category of sort of like shark attacks right. Pat what do you think the mystique of the mountain lion. 'Like we did as kids': Horse makes snow angels with her owner in New 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. Think you've seen a mountain lion. No I saw a camel. Monday, December 5th: Mountain Lions in New Hampshire? And really whenever you hear tiny code and long rope like tale it's kind of hard to pin this sighting on any other creature rather than an outline or just nothing else really matches that description. Peter Biello: Or send us an email exchange at an HP board. If youd like to submit a question (or send a mountain line photo) you can record it as a voice memo on your smart phone and send it tooustidein@nhpr.org, OR call our hotline, 1-844-GO-OTTER (1-844-466-8837) and leave a message. The views expressed in this program are those of the individuals and not those of an HP are its board of trustees or its underwriters. There are mountain lion in Massachusetts. Mountain lions remain an enigmatic animal for residents of New Hampshire, with New Hampshire Fish and Game reporting three to five sightings per week. Part II. N.H.'s Fish and Game department says there's no proof. I was a Bobcat we saw it and I have a picture of it. The females disperse a shorter range and once they find a vacant home range they stay in that location and live there. So it is possible to see male Mountain lions roam into the northeast - there was one hit by a car in CT a number of years back - but we don't have a breeding population of Mountain lions in New England. and territorial animals are much more inclined to create a problem with passer bys than dispersing animals in fact I'd be totally shocked if a dispersal would encounter with a human purposefully unless they had already had some type of training to do so. Which brings us to the next question, what are the odds that some of these reported sightings (which, when I posted about this on twitter, I immediately started to get as well) are actually people seeing a mountain lion? Thank you very much for listening. There was a lot of DNA evidence. So try to take photographs if you see something like this. Theyve always said when we have verifiable evidence to say a mountain lion has been, is, or was in the state that wed acknowledge that and give that information out, says Pat Tate, the furbearer biologist with New Hampshire Fish and Game, who insists theres no conspiracy. Patrick Tate: My line being a large predator a cat watch ambush his prey animal that hasn't been. Part II. We'd be inundated with scouts in the past when newspaper articles have been written about DNA and scouts. He played a pivotal role and he battled for recognition. 19 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. Get your tickets today and one for fifty dollars or six for 150 at NH PR and board. Mountain Lion report and as a biologist for the state that's a situation where if he said to me what did I see. Mountain Lion | Squam Lakes Natural Science Center All exhibit and hiking trails are CLOSED for the season. Verifiable pictures recorded by the observing person or a trail camera. Patrick Tate: Exactly I was gonna bring that up juvenile male of. So before we get to the the the the stories of sightings we're getting a lot of calls. So when we talk about the threshold of evidence required to say for sure you have seen a mountain lion it is rather high. 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. Patrick Tate: And there's one other way to model that is the same animal. 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. Today she talked with us a little bit before the show about why the mountain line is so compelling and why we want it to be part of our world. Fish and Game then deny the evidence. Well Is DNA the most reliable means we have of identifying whether or not what we saw is actually a mountain lion. nh.gov | privacy policy | accessibility policy Second when I when they did forward it from Wyoming to to Michigan you know this was coming right from sample 18 and 19 had no remarkable differences from known mountain lions from Michigan or Wyoming. Sue Morse: First and foremost if you have color or if you could see details of color look at the front of the face around the Pumas muzzle the muzzle itself is pure white. Its impossible to say, but I think the odds are pretty good that some of these sightings are legit. So what those ranges. Peter Biello: But clearly you know you're saying like hoaxes people who claim to have seen a mountain lion but knowingly have not or are appropriating photos taken elsewhere of legit mountain lion say out West where they people acknowledge that they exist certainly knowingly or unknowingly in this case the person who sent it to me said hey a friend of mine sent me this photo and said he took it on his back porch also. Its closest living relative is the cheetah. HOLDERNESS, N.H. (AP) Two of the known mountain lions in New Hampshire have spent their 15 years in close proximity to humans. Today, their range stretches from the Yukon Territory in Canada along the western coast of the United States, all the way to the Southern Andes in Chile. So here we have you know a very qualified biologist who who found a print took a plaster cast found a scat send it to a university. The engineers Dan Colgan our senior producer is Allan Grimm. Updated: 9:53 AM EST Dec 6, 2016. So I did a bunch of research and all the documentation I found was there art are not any pieces of DNA of Eastern online. I don't see the hoaxes anymore at that level. We rely on readers like you to support the local, national, and international coverage on this website. Peter Biello: Sam I wanted to ask you a little bit about that first and then turn to Patrick Tate efficient game. 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. Right. Theres a project called the Cougar Network that tracks verified sightings, and they are all around us: Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, New York and New Brunswick have all had verified sightings over the past 20 years or so. 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. Mountain Lions in New Hampshire-Fact or Fiction 3,207 views Jul 31, 2019 78 Dislike Share Save New Hampshire Fish and Wildlife 634 subscribers During my thirty-one career at the New. This is not the same as saying that there has never been a mountain lion seen in New Hampshire. Join as a $8 per month sustainer and get our brand-new owl umbrella! A lot of times. Now again I don't know that there's anything to that. 235 or nhandy@ledgertranscript.com. Let us know your story and share your photos. But I was riding a mountain bike not far from my house. Have you heard stories do you have questions about the mountain line. But you won't find evidence of their existence in paw prints in the snow or a deer carcass in a tree. You're on the air. Rick van de Poll: Oh yeah absolutely. Give us a call if you have a question or comments or story about perhaps seeing a mountain lion here in New Hampshire. Peter Biello: This is the exchange on an PR. Something along those lines. There have been several sightings of mountain lions in New Hampshire recently. JavaScript must be enabled for some features to display properly. Yes. 50 feet above the most. So nowadays we think of this in the Northeast as crazy stuff that people have a mountain lion as a pet. Let's talk to Mike in Webster. It traveled all the way from from you know Minnesota to New York without being so seen Patrick take. It's listed as population of least concern. There have been several sightings of mountain lions in New Hampshire recently. New Hampshire Public Radio | And the second question is this a behavior mountain lions exhibit. If you have them email exchange at an HP board or give us a call to tell us your story. Monadnock Ledger-Transcript - Claims of mountain lions spread I think as Pat was saying you know 35 to 50 pounds on a male be reasonable range whereas mountain lions you're up to 100 110 maybe even 130 pounds on a big male. 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. 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. So maybe a good pet for you but not for your neighbor if you just stop by unannounced. On a dirt road. Peter Biello: Nice to be here. We mentioned that one cat that was hit by a car where it has it that it was a male looking for me. History of Mountain Lions in New Hampshire | NH Wildlife Well let's talk a little bit about that. 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. He shifted gears in 2016 and began producing Outside/In, a podcast and radio show about the natural world and how we use it. His work has won him several awards, including two regional Edward R. Murrow awards, one national Murrow, and the Overseas Press Club of America's award for best environmental reporting in any medium. We live around Cold Springs Campground and it was undeniably a mountain lion. Caller: And then there's the Lily Pond Road and then there's a six foot tall fence. Sam Evans-Brown: And second the evidence required is is you know pretty pretty tough to gather. Contact the Wildlife Division at (603) 271-2461 or wildlife@wildlife.nh.gov to request an observation report form. Peter Biello: Wow.
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