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The big cat really commands the utmost respect not so much fear but fascination. 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.
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We'll hear from her periodically through the show. SUE Morse naturalist and science director for the organization keeping track. So I want to start the program with a comment from someone who is not in the studio with us today. And Rick Van de Poll naturalist and founder of ecosystem management consultants of New England. Today on the program Patrick Tate New Hampshire Fish and Game Wildlife biologist and far better project leader Sam Evans Brown host of an HP podcast outside in which is about the natural world and how we use it. If you have them email exchange at an HP board or give us a call to tell us your story. Let us know your story and share your photos. Today on the exchange we discuss what residents may have been seeing and what breeding mountain lion pairs would mean for our ecosystem. Residents from Bedford to Berlin have been reporting sightings for years.
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New Hampshire Fish and Game Department says there's no proof. The big cat has been extinct at least the eastern mountain lion has been extinct here since the mid 80s hundreds. There have been several alleged sightings of mountain lions in New Hampshire recently. This is a machine-generated transcript, and may contain errors.įrom New Hampshire Public Radio I'm Peter Biello in for Lark Knoy and this is the exchange.