At around 9:30, Snow said, I was outside working and I heard the horn blow. Ottmann and I walked farther. Please make your sighting as detailed as possible. Photo courtesy of Dave O'Donnell. There were also people who spoke of seeing prints in a specific area in Hartland as well. Fish and Wildlife Service unofficially declared the Eastern cougar extinct. 2 Last 5 Years. On the idea of bear hunting in Connecticut. Cris Ericson 802-289-1000. I did not see [the cats], but I did talk to the guy. Because theyre a northern animal, they have snow shoes by birth, Bernier said. The dogs did a 180 a pulled me away. One, Waterbury resident Jeff Kilgores sister-in-law, came across the cats while walking a dog on Ripley Road on a Monday morning. We hadnt seen a cougar, nor any evidence to suggest a cougar had traveled these woods recently. Get started. 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. What do you think of hunting? I was driving on cave road on Back side of military base toward Willisdon VT and it was across from ANG Miitary.. The cougar appeared injured and stunned, but eventually ran away . We need cougars and we need wolves back in the Northeast, because a landscape of fear is a well-balanced landscape.. Wile traveling north up 91 on Oct. 4 2015 with my family at about 3:30 pm We saw a dead mountain lion laying on the left hand side of the north bound side of the road. Hi Annie, I dont know if you still keep up with this blog but I thought Id give it a try. I worked in wrj,VT. I noticed that there were many great websites, blogs, and discussion boards devoted to mountain lion sightings in other states of New England, but not one just for Vermont. Welcome to the blog dedicated to discussing mountain lion sightings in Vermont. I started this blog for people to discuss mountain lion sightings and reports in the Green Mountain State of Vermont. Sill Editor. CHESTER Susan Morse, nationally known wildlife ecologist and tracker, will present Coming Soon: The Cougar Returns to the East, on Wednesday, Jan. 20, at 7 p.m. at the News Bank Conference Center in Chester. Normally we have good cameras but we were just up there for a quick delivery. Bill and I are full-throttle. Required fields are marked *. When seen in Florida, they are of approx. In the first, there are those such as myself, whove maybe heard a few second- or third- or fourth-hand stories as well as official denials from state agencies or professional biologists, and therefore find themselves betwixt and between, neither believing nor disbelieving. On Jan 22, 2015 while walking in North Fayston, VT I came across what I believe to be a Catamount paw prints. Would like to discuss, this event with you. 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. These experienced trackers unanimously confirmed that the tracks were made by a Mountain Lion. This is Christina, I used to work with you at the YMCA in Burlington. Less than five years ago, a large muscled cat with striking eyes rimmed with black and a tail as long as almost half its over four-foot long body, was hit by a car in a residential area of Greenwich, Conn. DNA analysis of the mountain lion's ( Puma . Sincerely, 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. I doubt it but it could be a mountain lion. Mountain Lions Not Just a Tall Tale in Adirondacks. Clearly, Puma concoloronce inhabited the forests of the Northeast, although its difficult to say in what numbers. She lives near the end of a gravel road in a modest, low-slung house tucked into the flanks of the Green Mountains. At first I thought it was a deer because of the color and size but as we drew closer I saw the thick long tail and realized what it was. Upon discussion I have found that Hartland residents report seeing mountain lions frequently-there are people that swear they come on their porch (one who works at ascutney hospital in windsor) and other older residents who have reported seeing them around the North Hartland Dam on an early morning walk. 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. This is a natural wildlife corridor coming down off of the Worcester Range headed over towards the Green Mountain Range. I'll tell you that.. Running into a mountain lion can be a scary experience. I met with Morse at her home in Jericho. According to the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department, only four confirmed sightings occurred in the state from the late 1700s to the early 2000s. Please contact me at epuma@frontier.com or 304-749-7778. Back in 2002 I saw a full grown mountain lion in Dummerston Vermont on east/west road. We all feel so blessed to have sighted them, and have no doubt we saw cougar. I think the only reason the lion did not attack was because of the dogs. 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. my friend has agreat hunting camp in sandgate vt. he just sent me a photo from a trailcam on his property,and without a doubt he got a picture of a mountain lion I dont know how to transfer photos to here,but I can do it to an e-mail. Ottmann nodded. Other sightings have come from individuals with various responsible backgrounds. It was a beautiful golden red color (like a red squirrel), about the size of a medium dog (maybe 40lbs?) Theres probably 100 in Connecticut, Ottmann interrupted, rolling a cigarette as he spoke. But that was OK. Bo Ottmann. Harrigans interest in cougars was sparked in the late 70s, after he took ownership of The Coos County Democrat and began noticing the steady influx of reported sightings. 26M views, 14K likes, 2K loves, 8.1K comments, 19K shares, Facebook Watch Videos from VT: This mountain lion is about to turn a vacation into a nightmare. My wife Linda and I, spent several days with the Hitchcocks at their Atlantic Ocean-front Cabin overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, from high up on a cliff, where you could hear the screams of at least 1 of Vermonts wild cougars, in both 1991 and again in 1993. Just like cats do - it waited to the last moment and then ran across in front of me. Hawley:Were sort of stuck between a rock and a hard place right now. [5] Its OK, he told me. 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. Its documented through track surveys, aerial surveys, trapping and collaring surveys. They were very large, light tan, with long legs, and long white tipped tail, Kilgore wrote, relaying the account. Still, sightings are common. And, a couple of biologists I talked to when I was putting this exhibit together, said that it's. 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. Within six weeks, he continued, I was getting off the plane in Jackson Hole for a national mountain lion conference. Can they really all be cases of false identification? document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); aint seen none yet, them wind turbines scarin em off, I have been following the eastern mountain lion mystery since the mid-1960s, in every state, east of the Mississippi River. Betty had driven up from his home in Rhode Island. McEnroe: Scientifically, this is a case where absence of evidence is kind of evidence of absence, right? 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. I reported it to Fish and Wildlife but I bet they are laughing- I am in shock! This Snowy Cougar photograph captures the majestic nature of these feline predators. The females are where its at, she said. The Mountain Times is, and has always been, a family-owned independent newspaper located on Route 4. I saw an animal hunting in the back of a graveyard but couldnt tell what it was. Responding to complaints about a predator eating a local farmers sheep, Crowell and a small group of fellow hunters had tracked the big cat through the snow. My husband hunts and tracks. If you have any pictures you can post them here too! Saturday Sunday: Closed. Hawley: I feel strongly that we need a harvest here in Connecticut. I hunt all over the country for big bucks. J.A. 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. How big was the animal? So special. 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. And identifying which is which is all in the tail, according to Bernier. E-mail it to epuma@frontier.com Mountain Lion fever Lynx sightings and Catamount sightings have been on the increase every year since 2003. We watched it kill an animal (a woodchuck or something). Anyway, I hope you see this message. Morally i mean Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. Director, Eastern Puma Research Network 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. My partner and I walked much closer to it (about 50-60 ft away). Prior to becoming a reporter, he was the founding producer of Connecticut Public Radio's The Colin McEnroe Show, which began in 2009. Weve got a growing bear population. We have a lot of bear traffic through here, and deer, Snow said. In Vermont, it was 1881. He has also reported for the Marketplace Morning Report. The dam is a protected area from hunting. While on vacation last summer in the Sequoias we had a lion cross the road in front of us at about 11 at night one night. Look out for our newsletters with travel tips and special offers. There are. Whats happening in Waterbury? 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. Or that a stray has gotten EXTREMELY lost. Big and Fast. If you dont think cougars are coming to the East, think again, she said, leaning forward for emphasis. You wouldnt shake hands with a man like that, she said, and though she was smiling I could tell she was serious. It was broadside to my headlights, paused to look me directly in the eyes, its magnificent tail as long as its body. Tom Stearns, a Vermont Game Warden says they get reports all the time. [Betty] and the other guys dont do this shit. So all the other states in the Northeast that have bear populations have a harvest on their bears. The debate rages in Maine, where the last confirmed cougar kill occurred in 1938, and in New Hampshire, where the last confirmed kill was in 1885. If you have a cell phone telephone number I can send photos to, I will send you photos of the prints in the snow around my porchside door. 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? I swear that is what I saw this morning at about 4 am in my drive. But that was OK. Bo Ottmannknew they were out there. E-mail address: epuma@frontier.com, I saw a mountain lion in 2010, in March in Hartland Vermont during a horrendous snow storm. 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 told family and close friends as I was very excited about it .I have hunted deer my whole life and had seen bobcats and lynx but there was no mistaken this catamount! And its not just Vermont. 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. How to Report a Possible Mountain Lion Sighting. 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. 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. However, reports have started surfacing again in recent years, and we have now spoken with no fewer than SIX reliable people who have SEEN one (maybe the same one, for all we know, but I doubt it) around the Rutland area -- primarily in Mendon or Chittenden -- in the last year. Prior to the mid-1990s, the late Wildlife Professor Harold Hitchcock of Middlebury College, became Vermonts Official Big Cat hunter, who sought evidence of the Big Cats across the Maple State. 4 . Dashboard for displaying mountain lion reports to the public. It stared at him for a few seconds and then took some steps towards him, eventually turning the other way and sliding into the undergrowth. Morse has been tracking cougars for 45 years, mostly in the mountains of the West, where their existence is not in doubt. 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. In some areas of the east, the absence of apex predators has led to a surplus of deer, which have then ravaged the understory and ground levels of vegetation. In 2011, a cougar was hit by a car and killed on a Connecticut highway. If you search vally news archives I believe its there-its clearly not a dog. We need [an apex] predator back on the land, Sue Morse told me. We need them for the health of our forests.. Sincerely, John Lutz, 99 Beagle boots Lane, Maysville, WV 26833 or epuma@frontier.com, Hellomy husband and I were at our Vermont vacation home taking a furniture delivery. People often get very emotional about it, Hawley says. He is a consummate storyteller, and he wears on his sleeve his affection for the region and the hard-working, commonsense people who inhabit it. It was a few miles south of the Hanover exit. TPWD Confirmed Mountain Lions. Bigger than my rottwieller/Lab cross. ), 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. It wailed just one time but it woke me from a sound sleep. The cougar was so close I could smell it. Jul 9, 2021. Ive seen bobcats before, this wasnt a bobcat. And its a lose-lose situation, because theres really not a whole lot you can tell them in most cases thats going to change their mind.. Weve done a lot of work over the years investigating sightings. It was just before dark and it crossed in front of me probably 20 yards in front, it was tawny colored, mid tan like and had long legs and long tail and was trotting. John A. Lutz 0. The last catamount in Vermont is finally, officially, certainly dead. Mountain Lions Living Mountain Lion Sightings in Vermont in Vermont? 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.. Fish and Wildlife Service in 2011. I thought it might be a bob cat or a huge fox but I wasnt sure. 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 huge. She favors plaid shirts, green Dickies work pants, and hiking boots, and she chided me for shaking her hand too gently. Since my 1st contact with Prof. Harold Hitchcock in 1981, I have collected big cat sightings from across Vermont from the internet. Adult males may be more than 8 feet long (from the tip of the nose to the tip of the tail), and can weigh between 130 and 150 pounds. Its tail was gigantic and it was swishing it back and forth. 99 Beagle Boot Lane The cat traveled down through New York and was last sighted at Lake George in New York state before it was hit by a car and killed on the Wilbur Cross Parkway in Connecticut. Stay clear and give 'em space. Our county announced that they do not think they will be able to retain our county trapper due to our serious budget crisis. However they put out a statement that IF there were to be a wild cat such as this it was illegal to shoot it. On our road in the last few years almost everyone has seen a Cougar, one neighbor has a fawn colored one on his game cam. [The catamounts] movements were so noiseless that Mr. Crowell found himself in this dangerous proximity before he was aware of it, and it was only by great coolness and daring that he severely wounded the animal and perhaps saved his own life, reads a placard attached to the display case. Guess you know, that Prof. Harold Hitchcock had a tremendous interest in cougar-mountain lion sightings and reports from the 1940s thru his death in the mid-1990s.he was on staff of Middlebury College. Would love some feedback just do not see how to upload photos. 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. 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. ALSO KNOWN AS Bobcats: Though technically a type of lynx, they are distinct from other species of lynx such as the Canadian lynx. Your email address will not be published. Originally I began in the Mid-Atlantic States, but widely expanded my collection to include all the New England States, at the suggestion of the late Prof. Harold Hitchcock of Vermonts Middlebury College. The date was June 17 at about 1 pm. Its definitely a problem thats only going to get worse. So theres fresh mud. In that time frame, have collected over 9,500 excellent reports from responsible witnesses, which includes law enforcement & forestry personnel. 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. But it also sort of instills that fear, a healthy fear of humans and bears. One cat will leave more than 10,000 tracks per day. While the Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks department hesitates to give solid numbers because they feel methods for tracking the population need to be improved, their estimate in 2019 was about 4,000 - 4,500 mountain lions. He soon developed a five-question litmus test: How far away were you? If there are mountain lions skulking around Vermont, they wont stay hidden for long, Bernier said. By mid-19th century, forests made up only about 30 percent of New England (its notable that today that number stands at approximately 80 percent, nearer to what it was when cougars thrived here). If you do see a big cat in your neighborhood, best practice is to leave it alone, according to Waterbury Game Warden Chad Barrett. We went back later and the road was hard but we did get some pictures of prints exactly where the cat went back into the woods and the toes were hard to see, but the pad was classic cougar and the print was the size of my hand. You need to understand that every biologist that works for the state has a duty to deny mountain lions. As a hobby gone astray, I have recorded more than 20,000 big cat sightings, from all states, east of Mississippi River since 1969. In May 2018, a mountain lion attacked two mountain bikers 30 miles east of Seattle, Washington, killing one, but it's only the 15th fatal attack in North America since 1970. Subsequent DNA testing found that the animal was from South Dakota. At least once a year thered be a story from somewhere, but I only ran the absolute best, he told me. The tail, I said. During the Summer of 1991, my wife Linda and I, took 3 days on our vacation, to meet both Harold & Martene Hitchcock. 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 Life of a Predator and The African Lion. Patrick Skahill is a reporter and digital editor at Connecticut Public. Its a cool story with how far that animal walked. of Energy & Environmental Protection. Two of my family members sighted cougars in Florida during daylight hours: one was leaping through a field on myakka side of route 75, between north port and Sarasota. It could simply mean someone who had an illegal pet or captive animal released the cougar into the wild. Of course. They set the stage for the exotics to move in, and this has a huge impact on our ecology, he said. A few days ago my husband was jogging at 5 am near our farm in Morgan Vermont, and a huge BLACK Cougar stepped out onto the road. Bernier gets more than 50 reports of mountain lions a year. But I still wouldn;t want to run into one. Vermonts last known cougar, also known as a mountain lion or catamount, was killed in 1881 in Barnard. I dont know what they are, bigger than my 50 pound dogs foot prints. On another large animal that is most definitely here: bears. Both the front (left) and rear paws of this animal . 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