![]() ![]() “There is a very low possibility of seeing them in the Eastern states,” said Pat Tate, a wildlife biologist with New Hampshire Fish and Game. State officials have said, over and over in recent years, that the eastern mountain lion has been completely wiped out from the Northeast. That’s the version New Hampshire Fish and Game is sticking to. “I am absolutely positive that is what it was. “I know what I saw,” Holden said by phone. Or at least it was recently.Īnd judging by the responses she’s received on Epsom’s informal town Facebook page, a lot of Granite Staters are also confident that the eastern mountain lion is alive and well in the Granite State and visiting communities near them. She’s convinced that at least one mountain lion – also known as a cougar – is wandering somewhere in the Suncook Valley. She read about their habits, their history, their homesteads. She’s a hearty New Englander with sharp eyes and the ability to Google. In her mind, however, that doesn’t disqualify her from showing sound judgment when claiming she saw a mountain lion last month in her backyard in Chichester, beyond her deck, near the woods. Lindsay Holden is not a wildlife biologist, nor does she play one on TV. ![]()
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