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? Wildlife biologists, as professional scientists, require a higher level of documentation and proof. A mountain lion was responsible for that too. 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. So, traffic had been slowed from both ends for a good 3-5 minutes. Videos. Bernier gets more than 50 reports of mountain lions a year. We have a lot of them here in N CA. Betty was quiet, and I wondered if even he, a man who does not doubt the presence of these cats in our midst and who himself claims multiple sightings, thought Ottmann was exaggerating. This guy was very intelligent, he had abandoned a professional career to pursue his dream of guiding. The Christian school also dropped out of the state . This animal was too long in the body and blunt in the head. One cat will leave more than 10,000 tracks per day. This much was certain: it was a wild mountain lion and it was in an area where one had not been seen for more than 100 years. It jumped 28 feet across the road. Some of them, he says, we could close the books on pretty quickly. Around 1830, the . No need since so we guess it has moved on from the northeast corner of Connecticut. Around 7:10 pm this evening August 02, 2022 my wife entered our Oakwood Farm business off 6 Weed Road in Essex Center with headlights on. 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? My encounter was in Middlesex, VT along the river road (Route 2) just below I89. How did I know? This assessment is echoed by the aforementioned Christopher Spatz, who has been studying cougars for better than 20 years. A 140-pound male mountain lion was hit by a car and killed in 2011 in Milford, Connecticut. Predator removal was steady and unforgiving from the early 1800s . We told him what we saw, and he confirmed other sightings on the property. [Betty] and the other guys dont do this shit. I started asking a lot of questions, and realized theres only one explanation for the answers I was getting: They are here., You could have 30 in Connecticut alone. I saw one about 10 years ago, on our road. Morse introduced me to her cat, Allister, whom she referred to as her portable puma. Then she fetched me a beer. The animal, I learned, is called many things: mountain lion, panther, catamount, puma, cougar and more. I now live in Boulder, CO where we have regular sightings.same animal as 35 yrs agohands down, Warren ,Ma early morning having my coffee on my front steps and noticed about 50 feet across the Road something coming out of the trail as it did it looked out at the road and turned around as it did I could see that it was a mountain lion ! It had moved a little and was standing unconcealed, now, in the middle of the logging road. Much as I liked Ottmann and Betty, and much as I found some of their evidence compelling, I was struggling to reconcile their more provocative claims with the restraint expressed by the many other experts Id spoken with. Experts need to see the body to dismiss their prejudices. We clearly have migratory male cougars coming through. 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. The captive narrative also helped explain why there had been so many sightings reported, including some in Greenwich, among the richest and most domesticated suburbs in America. Betty had driven up from his home in Rhode Island. That it had, somehow, made a return and established residence. 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. Those who believe the growth and expansion of mountain lion populations to be a good thing routinely make the old, you face a greater danger of being struck by lighting or drowned in the bathtub argument and it is no doubt accurate. Saw one on old mountain rd Peterborough N.H. a few years ago on my property followed it and ran to get my camera have a photo but in distance by time got it was amazing animal t Metcalf. Was INCREDIBLE! As livestock farming came to dominate the landscape, pressure on the big cats slowly mounted on two fronts: The number of farmers wanting them dead was increasing, while the rapid transition from forest to farmland meant their habitat was shrinking. You could have 50. But a deer is not a predator, like a bear can be, and certainly not a pure predator like a mountain lion, which is a majestic animal precisely because it is also a dangerous one. I have no choice but to take this seriously, he told me. A far less likelyenvironment for finding a mountain lion than just about anywhere in Vermont. So the initial assumption was that the animal was one of those captives that had either escaped or been released by its owner. Cougars, Lynx, Bobcats, Wolves, Bears etc were and are a She lives near the end of a gravel road in a modest, low-slung house tucked into the flanks of the Green Mountains. Their bodies are mainly covered in tawny-beige fur, except for the whitish-gray belly and chest. First about the animal, itself, and then about the lore and the possibility that the catamount was not, in fact, extinct in Vermont. There was a tin of American Spirit tobacco on the table (Ottmanns), a laptop (Bettys), a notebook (mine), and a tumbler of Bacardi and Coke (Ottmanns again). They were inevitably fleeting. Video - Trade Show Recaps; Videos - Can We Find a Time to Talk? Long Trail beat Arlington 62-40 on Feb. 7. I go out into the woods on the opening day of deer season every year and a lot of other Vermonters are out there with me. But never a catamount. There was, in California last year, a case of a mountain lion seriously injuring a six-year old who was walking a trail in Silicon Valley country. Somebody in the NC Legislature believes, because lions are now protected by law. But I dont think it will happen any time soon.. In the few seconds that this took, I had convinced myself that I was looking at a mountain lion. And so when they come to him with a sighting, hes prepared to believe. Threat of Being Attacked There was no denying that the carcass, which was examined by experts, was that of a mountain lion. And, if those people who said they were seeing catamounts were wrong, and not just making it up, then what were they seeing? Nostalgia for the Wild I was tracking some deer tracks and I came to a promising deer run with a lot of deer scat on the ground when I noticed a cat track amongst the sign. I will never forget what I saw! It seems humans just cant resist destroying these animals and either dont realize or dont care what damage we have done to our natural environment over the centuries. However, many of their claimsespecially Mr. Bettys contention of roughly a dozen personal sightings in New Englandare hard to take seriously. 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! But that was OK. Bo Ottmann, A Lobster Trap Menorah Shines in Gloucester, Massachusetts, Chips Off the Old Block | Knowledge & Wisdom, Yankee Candle | New England by the Numbers, First Christmas | Krissy OSheas Scandinavian-Inspired Holiday Cottage, The Sweet Life | Holiday Baking with Dorie Greenspan, 2019 Yankee Magazine Editors Choice Food Awards, In the Kitchen at Mayfair Farm | Weekends with Yankee. 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. What are the chances of wolves coming back to Vermont? He wore red suspenders and a baseball cap. I had seen bear, deer, coyotes, foxes, that one bobcat all the usual suspects. 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. Beautiful creature. She said it jumped up on the neighbors stone wall which was pretty high and walked across it. He worked, in Wyoming and Arizona, with other professionals, some with government agencies, like the one he works for, and others who were hunters and trappers, often employed by ranchers who had lost stock to mountain lions. Then saw him a few more times from further away across the road and along the edge sometimes of the woods. Apex predators like the cougar and wolf make for a healthier ecosystem. I saw a Mountain Lion in 2007 in Northfield, MA at the junctions of Rtes 10 and 63. It can run 50 miles an hour and clear a twelve-foot fence. Interesting article, but it is really incomplete without a discussion of the legal implications of having a confirmed endangered species such as the Eastern Cougar in New England. My own inclination, for the little it matters, is to side with the professionals like Blodgett. We witnessed a mountain lion stalking a herd of deer. They may get here, Doug Blodgett said to me one afternoon. Maybe you've seen the UVM(University of Vermont) catamount at a basketball game, or the catamount at the Vermont History Museum. 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. 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. Put bluntly, Morse does not believe that New England is home to cougars. 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. In their estimation, the presence of a breeding cougar population in New England would likely stem from our proximity to Canada, where, as they rightly point out, DNA analysis has resulted in 19 positive identifications across Quebec and New Brunswick since 2001 (although some of these were shown to be of South American lineage, suggesting escaped pets). Sue Morse, a professional animal tracker, believes that means cougars will, eventually, return to Vermont. 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. Defenders of Wildlife developed funding to support wolf predation on cattle which I believe worked. 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. After 20 minutes or so, we turned and stumbled our way back to the parking lot. I just heard from a fellow college student of a siting in Greenfield last fall and two in Colrain this spring. I also had the vague notion that when it comes to cougars, people tend to sort themselves into one of three camps. Big kitty. Winds ESE at 10 to 20 mph. Mountain lions are large, tan cats. I saw on three occasions in about the same location a beautiful mtn lion with the long bushytail that curves at the end. 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. The scientific name for the catamount is Puma concolor. Since then, there have been a handful of confirmed mountain lion sightings in the Northeast, although most have been thought to be escaped captive animals. I think I may have pissed her off since I was up in that area X2 this week. In Vermont, for instance, a few dozen wild turkeys from Pennsylvania were released in 1969 and multiplied into the thousands we have here now. In Vermont, the last known mountain lion was shot near Barnard in 1881, ending an era when the predators were such a nuisance that the state offered a $20 bounty per pelt. Our wildlife biologists and enforcement agents are mostly political bureaucrats who dont often venture more than 100yards from the truck. It had traveled, certainly, though Minnesota and Wisconsin and, who knows, perhaps even Vermont and might, then, have accounted for some of those sightings. My mother always said she saw one across the street from our house one night in the late 50s early 60s. Especially by one that he remembers involving a kill site.. 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). 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. Face to face, maybe, with a sure enough catamount. Success stories being more fun to talk about than the other kind. It is also known as cougar, panther, mountain lion, and puma, though catamount is the preferred regional vernacular. The last catamount in Vermont is finally, officially, certainly dead. Using DNA and physical evidence, state environmental officials said they determined that the animal likely trekked more than 1,500 miles from South Dakota, a journey that was captured by trail camera (above). And the clincher, What would you say was the most distinguishing feature? ), 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. Refuge volunteer Dale Erz originally. They were also reluctant to certify that turkey and moose had returned the Quabin reservoir lands for many years after locals reported seeing them. I saw one yesterday in Windsor Cty Vermont. Although the US Fish and Wildlife Service declared the . If we end up with a population, it will be the result of a colonizer female who gets here somehow, some way, and the rest will be history.. I must have looked doubtfulwe were within spitting distance of a heavily trafficked road and only 12 miles from downtown Hartfordbut both Ottmann and Betty told me that cougars actually prefer more populated areas, since thats where deer tend to congregate. There was never, of course, a photograph. I thought I saw signs posted in Pawling NY about 8 years ago, that DEC released a pair to control deer population,mane several people have seen them in Wingdale, NY. My parents friend in Deposit, NY, posted a young catamount sitting on the front porch on Facebook. Mr. Betty and Mr.Ottomans passion and efforts are impressive. All of us with rifles, most of them scoped. In the states where there are robust mountain lion populations, they are a threat to livestock, pets and, occasionally, humans. Camel's Hump (alternatively Camels Hump) is a mountain in the Green Mountains in the U.S. state of Vermont.The north slope of the mountain borders the Winooski River, which has carved through the Green Mountains over eons.At 4,083 ft (1,244 m), it is tied (with Mount Ellen) for the third-highest mountain in Vermont.Surrounded by 10 acres (4 ha) of alpine tundra, the mountain is the most . He says that if mountain lions do . Mid Vermont Christian School (MVCS) was set to play the Long Tail Mountain Lions last Tuesday before the former decided not to compete based on concerns for player safety and fairness. Long Trail Mountain Lion roster: Myra Aldanondo, Olivia Cole-Bugay, Liz Daara, Rose Johnson, Aubrey Lanning, Molly Luikart, Camilla Marcy, Meara Morgan, Harlow Quail, . Several years ago, I saw what was definitely a cougar walking along a street. It was a striking animal, certainly, but it was no mountain lion. There were pine cones on window sills, a well-used hatchet and a variety of animal figurines on display, and, near the television, a stack of videos including. There was the vaguest of trails, crisscrossed by deadfalls and a sharp-thorned bush that soon drew blood from Ottmanns right hand. But it is also true that there is something different and especially chilling about the threat of being attacked by something that is alive and wants to devour you. Black markings decorate the tip of the tail, ears, and around the snout. When I came out, the cat appeared in front of me coming up a rise (incredibly close to some ski condos). You cant mistake the long tail. It can run 50 miles an hour and clear a twelve-foot fence. I kept trying to make it be something else because I was shocked that I was, indeed, watching a mountain lion pass in front of me. They are much larger than bobcat and lynx, young adults can still have spots too. 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 !! Its range was once similarly vast; from the high north regions of the Yukon to the Straits of Magellan. There was one young kid, in his 20s, who had been doing it since he was in high school and he walked and thought like a cat. We really must establish first that these beautiful animals SHOULD be in every state that was once THEIR habitat. The scientific name for the catamount is Puma concolor. What time of day was it? 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. His Tail was very long almost touching the ground and as thick as velvet rope. My daughter and I were driving north in West Granby, near the Simsbury, Ct. line just after lunch one summer day a few years ago. The police and everyone else just shook their heads but she to her dying breath said she saw a mountain lion in Lexington MA. And, now, here I was. 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. Clearly, Puma concolor once inhabited the forests of the Northeast, although its difficult to say in what numbers. Body coloration can range from tan to gray and cubs are usually covered with blackish brown spots. I think of Aldo Leopolds Thinking Like a Mountain essay about how deer decimated the forests and died of starvation because of humans incessant desire to kill. Humans and wildlife MUST learn to live along side each other and we MUST learn to respect nature. I wasnt planning to shoot her unless she moved in my direction. And, more often than not, when I told it, the person listening would nod and tell me about someone who had definitely seen a mountain lion/catamount in the Vermont woods or crossing a highway or, even, in the back yard. Raised them carefully to my eyes. 9 Grace Christian (9-11). The evidence, he says, just wasnt there., Mountain Lions Revisit Kill Sites Theres probably 100 in Connecticut, Ottmann interrupted, rolling a cigarette as he spoke. The tavern was quiet except for some hard-rock music playing on the radio, the murmur of a handful of men at the bar, and us. Well, theres no difference between Maine and New Brunswick, anyway, said Betty. In the states where there are robust mountain lion populations, they are a threat to livestock, pets and, occasionally, humans. Besides, Ottmann had revealed that hed been charged by a bear in this same piece of woods, and I felt conflicted about diverting my gaze from the underbrush. Probably are lions in western NC, too. But some sightings were more promising and some seemed exceedingly so. on route to stone tower on Quabbin Hill. Where I live bears, wolves cougars etc roamed freely and now sadly if one of those apex predators is spotted our DNR will usually destroy it. But my eyes picked up something and I knew, right away, that it was alive. Forty years of reporting on New Hampshire cougar sightings has convinced Harrigan that the state is home to at least a handful of breeding animals. And its not just Vermont. This Everglades panther population has recently recovered after wildlife biologists brought in some animals from Texas to breed with the last few native cats and this story is typical of the conservation ethic that has taken hold in the United States. 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. Fish and Wildlife Service unofficially declared the Eastern cougar extinct. Our county. Periods of snow. She lives near the end of a gravel road in a modest, low-slung house tucked into the flanks of the Green Mountains. Tom Stearns, a Vermont Game Warden says they get reports all the time. 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