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. In my case, I had seen just about everything else in the Vermont woods in the several years that I had been going out, and not just during deer season. Around 1830, the . In March of 1965, the Colorado legislature repealed the old mountain lion bounty of $50, which was first enacted in 1924. The Christian school also dropped out of the state . In my mind, I went through all the nots. Green Mountain Lion Corp #256 34 Blair Park Road Ste. We need [an apex] predator back on the land, Sue Morse told me. I wasnt planning to shoot her unless she moved in my direction. He knew it was only a matter of time. Low 24F. Videos. and with my friend Chris Christinat who lives in hartsville we saw one stalking a rabbit on her lawn about autumn of 2009. And some people might decide to release them into the wild rather than keeping them in their possession. Morse has been tracking cougars for 45 years, mostly in the mountains of the West, where their existence is not in doubt. Mid Vermont Christian School Eagles forfeited their girls basketball playoff game on Tuesday against Long Trail School Mountain Lions. Coyotes, for instance, found their way into Vermont with no help. 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. Inslerman said the DEC received about a half-dozen calls reporting sightings of mountain lions last year; two calls this week. My encounter was in Middlesex, VT along the river road (Route 2) just below I89. 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. Blodgett liked talking about this subject. Even though the experts say there arent any mountain lions in CT, there are. No An official form of the United States government. Ive seen tracks (Downeast Maine) and others have seen them, plain as day. People like you are the problem and cause of extinctions. And the clincher, What would you say was the most distinguishing feature? No need since so we guess it has moved on from the northeast corner of Connecticut. By the late 20th century, the range of the catamount was confined to several western states and a small remnant population along the Gulf Coast that was eventually squeezed down into the Everglades/Big Cypress area of Florida and reduced to a couple of dozen animals of poor genetic quality due to inbreeding. I live in Vermont and have seen, in broad daylight, a mountain lion (catamount, cougar, puma). 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. Yet I also remembered something Sue Morse had told me months before, as we sat in her living room drinking beer and chatting cats. I moved very carefully to get my hand in my pocket and my fingers around the glasses. When I came out, the cat appeared in front of me coming up a rise (incredibly close to some ski condos). Ive seen more field evidence in a couple of hours tracking out west than Ive seen in 100 years on the East Coast, he said. The Mountain Lions won both regular season margins by 30-plus points. We met for lunch on a Sunday morning in early March, and it didnt take long for me to understand why Harrigan is such a popular columnist. The name " Camel's Rump " was assigned on a historical map made by Ira Allen in 1798. But right now youre dealing with top-notch guys. The evidence, he says, just wasnt there., Mountain Lions Revisit Kill Sites 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. These things happen suddenly and they are over quickly. If you dont think cougars are coming to the East, think again, she said, leaning forward for emphasis. Now, ocelots are critically endangered and jaguarundis might be completely gone. You cant mistake the long tail. Email: info@grnvt.com. 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). Nostalgia for the Wild There was one photographed on a porch in Greenwich, CT, looking in the patio window that made national news a decade ago. If he was not determined to prove that someone had actually seen a mountain lion in Vermonthe is a scientist, after allhe was still excited by the possibility. And, if those people who said they were seeing catamounts were wrong, and not just making it up, then what were they seeing? 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. 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 went back and told the tale to anyone who would listen. And consider, for a moment, the concern and outright fear an official acknowledgment of such a carnivorous and predatory creature might evoke. A journey of nearly 2,000 miles. According to official estimates, as many as 1,000 people own, in spite of legal prohibitions, captive animals. 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. The first European settlers arrived in the Texas Hill country in the early 1800s and viewed mountain lions as a dangerous threat to their own survival as well as a predator threat to their livestock. 104 Williston, VT 05495. Dont forget, south Texas also used to home to two other species of cats ocelots and jaguarundis. Because while male cougars eventually strike out on their own and occasionally wander far from home, females are, as Morse puts it, hardwired to remain close to their mothers home range. Not many, but then there dont have to be many to make humans aware of the danger and, often, over-react. Could be a deer, but it didnt seem to be tall enough. Long Trail beat Arlington 62-40 on Feb. 7. Its mounted carcass is on display in Montpelier where Id seen it when I was the adult supervision for my daughters sixth-grade class trip to the capital. Theyre here. Theres probably 100 in Connecticut, Ottmann interrupted, rolling a cigarette as he spoke. Respect predators, protect them but dont worship or try to hug them! Its closest living relative is the cheetah. 3 talking about this. New in PJ Media: The world having gone absolutely insane, the Mid Vermont Christian School (MVCS) girls' basketball team is likely to get a lot of heat for this, but in a sane world, they would be the heroes of the story. This animal was too long in the body and blunt in the head. Bennington, VT (05201) Today. Provided by Touchpoints All of which is to say that if Alexander Crowell wasnt afraid on that long-ago Thanksgiving Day, he probably should have been. 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. Wildlife biologists, as professional scientists, require a higher level of documentation and proof. A far less likelyenvironment for finding a mountain lion than just about anywhere in Vermont. Unlike male cougars, the femaleslike this Montana cat with her cubdont tend to strike out for new territory, which makes it unlikely that a breeding population would establish itself far from the cougars current habitatsbut not impossible. 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. So it is possible that, on occasion, someone would catch a glimpse of one of these animals. Tried to see "mountain lion" and agree that what appears to be a long tail is most likely the . I think they never left, Ottmann piped in. 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). A wildlife camera snapped the image in late 2019 and the refuge shared it on Facebook this month, challenging followers to find the hidden mountain lion. We strolled across the tavern parking lot and ducked into the forest, where Ottmann maintains a portion of his $15,000 worth of wildlife recording equipment (hes had no luck capturing a cougar on camera, though, despite more than a decade of trying). He wore red suspenders and a baseball cap. To date, Keeping Track has helped conserve 40,000 acres in 12 states and inQuebec. It was fast as hell but there was no mistaking its not only long,but THICK tail as it disappeared into the woods. So you can imagine there. We also had bobcats that we saw quite often but I am positive that these were mountain lions! They are there and thriving!!!! Phone: +1 802 448 8250. I had seen only one in my life and it was not in Vermont, where the mountain lion was officially extinct, the last one having been killed in 1881. But I learned something else in my ad hoc researchesnamely that this was a question that aroused a lot of passion in people. 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. Winds ESE at 10 to 20 mph. Among the mountain lions typical behaviors is the way it will revisit, for several days, the carcass of an animal it has killed, moving it and cacheing it until there is nothing left to eat or the flesh has turned. But it seems virtually inevitable that a time is coming when that thing you see on the trail up ahead of you might be something to make the hair stand up on the back of your neck. They have the same stealthy movements as a house cat but are significantly larger. It does NOT surprise me, you would have seen a wild, free-roaming, native 'eastern' cougar, aka puma, mountain lion in Vermont. Threat of Being Attacked Some with cameras. Within six weeks, he continued, I was getting off the plane in Jackson Hole for a national mountain lion conference. My mother always said she saw one across the street from our house one night in the late 50s early 60s. There was never, of course, a photograph. Some people say they have seen a catamount in the woods. But it was also a male. 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. Id need proof if I wanted people to believe me. One summer I saw what I assumed was the same cougar several different times in my neighborhood which was near a long strip of woods along I 91 and used to be a large open field across the road from our home. They were also seen at other times by members of my family and other people in the neighborhood. 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. Because they are.. There are so many great sites out there devoted to. That was plain, right away. (The cat I saw when I was a young boy was on the Gulf Coast.). So I asked him about the catamount and if the animal in Connecticut was some sort of advance scout for a coming wave of resident lions. Westford, MA, crossing Dunstable Rd from Long Sought For Pond into the woods. Its range was once similarly vast; from the high north regions of the Yukon to the Straits of Magellan. As cleared lands became reforested, many species that had been squeezed into small regions where there was still habitat,or hunted to near extinction, could be replanted in their former range. When we reached tower, a ranger arrived in a pickup. 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. Especially among those who did believe. I was just amazed as I watched this scene in my own back yard. He didn't want to dispute what people are saying they saw, he simply says they need proof to substantiate it. As pets or for exhibit. Even in the controlled environment of a lab, the truth about Eastern cougars seems to be almost willfully eluding its seekers. 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. And so when they come to him with a sighting, hes prepared to believe. I was deer hunting with my father, it was in the fall about 7 years ago, in Barre Ma towards the Templeton Ma lines. There is a reason that millions of people were afraid to go in the water after they saw the movie Jaws. Then, a mountain lion was run over by an SUV on the outskirts of New Haven, Connecticut. 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.). Whatever it was, it was standing motionless and, I thought, looking back at me as intently as I was staring at it. The tails gotta be there. Yet dozens of. Check out 4 Seconds Until Impact by Bruce Hemming, or Cat Urbigkits books about predator attacks in unlikely places . 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. Because he lives among them, Harrigan understands that no one knows the woods better. I started this blog for people to discuss mountain lion sightings and reports in the Green Mountain State of Vermont. The Great Divide | Are There Mountain Lions in New England. Green Mountain Lion Corporation, Inc. Business Consulting and Services Williston, Vermont 5,563 followers Boutique management recruiting firm focusing on heavy equipment manufacturing & distribution. Vermont offers plenty of habitat in which mountain lions could thrive. 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. Still, I wanted to believe those sightings were real. She favors plaid shirts, green Dickies work pants, and hiking boots, and she chided me for shaking her hand too gently. Mountain lions are around 4 feet long with a two-and-a-half foot tail and can stand 24-30 inches tall at the shoulder. Its not a bear, not a dog, not a deer, not a bobcat. All those deer hunters represent a kind of ad hoc search party. If its not, you just thank the person and say good-bye.. Stupid me grabbed my camera and a stick as to protect myself ( yes stupid idea as I could stop this thing from attacking me lol. I have not had the pleasure of seeing one, but have heard credible reports of them in Western Mass. 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. I also know of someone who said they showed F&G a photo of one from a game camera in NH. They knew what they were doing, Blodgett says. Blodgett did on-site investigations of these, in what became a predictably futile search for the sign he had learned, out west, to look for. I thought about why this might be and the best I could come up with for an answer is that we feel a kind of nostalgia for the wild. Several years ago, I was bicycling with a buddy up Quabbin Reservoirs Administration Rd. It has, in fact, more names than any animal in the world. I met with Morse at her home in Jericho. On the other side, there are those (as represented here by Bill Betty and Bo Ottmann, along with a number of others I spoke with) who say the overwhelming quantity of anecdotal evidence suggests otherwise. Of course. ), 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. 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. You need to understand that every biologist that works for the state has a duty to deny mountain lions. Vermont Mountain Lion Sightings. Its not my call. In Vermont, it was 1881. But, yes, thats exactly what it was. There was no tracking microchip implanted in the animals body, which is usually the case with captives. Maybe you've seen the UVM(University of Vermont) catamount at a basketball game, or the catamount at the Vermont History Museum. Now that USFW has declared them extinct, why not formally reintroduce them. The Spatz and Sue Ottmann referred to are Christopher Spatz and Sue Morse, two of the better-known and arguably most experienced cougar skeptics in the Northeast. And why not? What color was it? Stratton Magazine Celebrating Manchester and the Mountains. This assessment is echoed by the aforementioned Christopher Spatz, who has been studying cougars for better than 20 years. 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. Beautiful creature. Its OK, he told me. 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. By now, I knew the answer to that one. 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. It is healthy to have respect and caution, but fear shouldnt drive ecological decision making. Until 2011, that question rested upon a hypothetical. The animal, I learned, is called many things: mountain lion, panther, catamount, puma, cougar and more. It can run 50 miles an hour and clear a twelve-foot fence. This was, after all, a long, long way from the nearest known population of mountain lions and virtually the heart of the suburban East. There, too, is Crowells photograph, grainy and old: the hunter leaning against a tree stump, his head propped casually on his left hand, elbow to stump, shotgun cradled in the crook of his right arm. I also had the vague notion that when it comes to cougars, people tend to sort themselves into one of three camps. He says that if mountain lions do . We think theyre coming in from Canada, Betty told me. They may get here, Doug Blodgett said to me one afternoon. 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. We lived off of Mountain Rd in Granby, Ct for 8 years and I can say that without a doubt I am 100% sure that there are mountain lions living there. Ive attended talks with Sue Morse. Still, there are those of us who know what weve seen. 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. 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. I saw one about 10 years ago, on our road. These were old growth woods and the canopy had kept the ground cover down, so I could see three or four hundred yards ahead of me but not clearly, because of the gloom. Well, I KNOW there was at least one mountain lion in NE because years ago (maybe 35 or so) I lived in Longmeadow, MA. Distinguished by a boxy head, big paws and a VERY long tail. Theymay not be looking, specifically, for a catamount. At Green Mountain Lion Corp, we specialize in placing professionals in a variety of industries. 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 !! 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. They were also reluctant to certify that turkey and moose had returned the Quabin reservoir lands for many years after locals reported seeing them. The last time a mountain lion was captured in New York was in the . This guy was very intelligent, he had abandoned a professional career to pursue his dream of guiding. Americans called the mountain " Tah-wak-be-dee-ee-wads. The catamount is a creature of stealth and concealment; it stalks its prey, which on the EasternSeaboard would likely be deer, moose, porcupines, beavers, and domestic livestock. The discussion of whether federal lands should be a place to subsidize cattle ranching is another question. I dont ever say to people, Thats not what you saw. I say, I hope you saw one, Spatz told me when I called him at his home in upstate New York. It is what wildlife biologists call an apex carnivore, which means it can overpower pretty much any other creature in its environmentwith the exception of an armed human. 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. The glasses I carried were of good quality with exceptional light-gathering property. 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. 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 is also known as cougar, panther, mountain lion, and puma, though catamount is the preferred regional vernacular. 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. Humans and wildlife MUST learn to live along side each other and we MUST learn to respect nature. I saw on three occasions in about the same location a beautiful mtn lion with the long bushytail that curves at the end. As land was cleared for farming and the cats prey species declined in number, it went after livestock. Although the US Fish and Wildlife Service declared the . Something I had not expected ever to experience. 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. So yes they are here and not to sure why they dont admit to them being around ! 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. The habitat is certainly right, with so many farms having gone by and so much formerly cleared land returning to second growth forest and with the populations of prey species suchas deer and porcupines having reached abundant proportions. She IS, perhaps, the most knowledgeable and experienced person in this arena and I listened intently to her presentation (Richmond, VT 2018). Females ranges are much smaller so it will take reintroduction or a few savvy wildlife biologist in the dead of night. People in Colorado communities might need to warn their children and to look over their own shoulders when they were out jogging, but not here. 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. Newspaperman John Harrigan has long covered the New England outdoors, including writing the New Hampshire Sunday News column Woods, Water & Wildlife which ran for almost 40 years. Apex predators like the cougar and wolf make for a healthier ecosystem. Put bluntly, Morse does not believe that New England is home to cougars. One cat will leave more than 10,000 tracks per day. 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. And so we come to the great divide over cougars in New England. But that was OK. Bo Ottmann knew they were out there. Long Trail Mountain Lion roster: Myra Aldanondo, Olivia Cole-Bugay, Liz Daara, Rose Johnson, Aubrey Lanning, Molly Luikart, Camilla Marcy, Meara Morgan, Harlow Quail, . The one thing that jumped out at her the tail. Somebody in the NC Legislature believes, because lions are now protected by law. It has nothing to do with trophy hunting, public safety, etc. A hard-to-spot mountain lion patiently waits for the right moment to attack an elk feeding in a gully at the Rio Mora National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico in a photo posted by the refuge . 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. When he suggested we retrace our route, past lion, to see a sow bear with cubs, we headed in the opposite direction. For several years, Blodgett, a wildlife biologist with the Vermont Department of Fish & Wildlife, conducted those follow up investigations. This, said Vermont Fish and Wildlife fur-bearer project leader Chris Bernier, is why he takes reports of mountain lion sightings seriously. 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