tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5105426862350522072024-02-06T19:44:13.914-08:00Endangered, Extinct & ExtirpatedWords & Pictures & Conversations-Search for the CatamountDaniel Richmondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00059559584199882497noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-510542686235052207.post-70183571031455727942013-09-07T13:57:00.002-07:002014-06-23T15:01:56.056-07:00Is the Catamount Really Gone?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #38761d;">I have been meaning to get you details on my encounter with a real
live Mountain Lion, Of course, I can't verify that it was a native
Catamount, but it was a lion and I saw it up close. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #38761d;">It occurred on October 13, 2011. I was traveling
north in North Bennington just around dusk. From the
Bennington College side of the road came something at a full gate which
caused me to abruptly jump on my brake pedal. As I came to a stop, a
Mountain Lion ran across just in front of my car. It was as wide as the
traffic lane including the tail . I would compare it to a large German
Shepherd in size, though lower to the ground. It's color was a rich
light brown, small rounded ears turned back from a small round head and
the tail was thick like an ocean grade tie line. No spots. I actually
had my camera on the front seat, but by the time I had it turned the
lion was long gone.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #38761d;">If you travel the road you will see a
low spot where the creek leads to the swamp. That is where he/she
crossed and disappeared into what looks like a well worn wildlife trail.</span></span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: orange;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="color: black;">Bennington County, VT. Winter 1993. Anonymous</span></span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: orange;"><span class="Apple-style-span">My
personal experience with a mountain lion. Initially the first time I
was driving home at night in December, it was probably 1993 & the
road I live on is rural & I saw for less than a second and a half an
animal cross the road in front of me that came out of the side of the
road and it touched the yellow line and was gone in a flash.</span></span><span style="color: orange;"><span class="Apple-style-span"> It
was long, lean and had a three foot long tail.This was at night and the
headlights were on the animal & I would have gone back to look for
tracks but there wasn't any snow.</span></span></span></span></h4>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: orange;"><span class="Apple-style-span"> Do you remember the color?</span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: orange;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Tawny-beautiful
and there was no mistaking it when you see one-You know a coyote has a
puffy tail and a deer has a white short tail and there is nothing else
that has a three foot long tail that looks like a sausage. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: orange;">There
was no way I was going to catch a glimpse in the woods it was dark. I
was amazed and ecstatic-never thought I would see one again. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: orange;"></span></span></span><br /></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Bennington County, VT. </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">Summer 2013. A. Mishkin. </span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-size: small;">"It jumped out in front of me, I hit the brakes!" -</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Adirondacks, NY. 2000. R. VanOrden.</span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">Cat
sighting: It was about 13 years ago, in the Adrondacs somewhere between
Long Lake and Tupper lake. It was just after dark (I forgot the month but it
wasn't in the winter) and the cat ran across the road in front of my car. At
first I thought it was a deer because of its size, but then I noticed the tail.
There is no mistaking that tail. It was a catamount. And
then it was gone. </span><br />
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<b> Cheshire, MA. 2012. L.R.</b><br />
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">We were biking a trail in Cheshire headed towards Adams, the cougar walked out in front of us, it still had spots on it and in four strides it was gone. The following evening we went back and where the cougar was, two white tail deer were grazing. We did report this two weeks after the episode. We debated telling people because we did not want anyone to hunt or hurt this animal! The spots were that of a young cougar but it still had the long tail, ears and body of an eastern mountain lion.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;">-Send In Your Catamount Stories-</span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; mso-fareast-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">-Artist
and Bennington native Daniel Richmond has devised a conceptual, community based
art project to collect stories from local residents of recent catamount
sightings. In addition to a call for catamount sightings, which will be shared
with museum visitors, the exhibit will include fragments of recycled Vermont
marble sidewalks carved by Richmond with disjointed accession numbers, vestiges
of the museum's formal cataloging system. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; mso-fareast-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">After the exhibition is over Richmond
will give the markers to individuals who <span style="color: red;">share their story of a catamount
sighting with the museum</span>. These individuals will then be asked to place the
markers at the location that their sighting occurred and provide a photograph
of the marker in situ to the museum. In doing this Richmond draws upon
Bennington's rich legacy of historic markers and Vermonters' love of their land
and its native flora and fauna, while simultaneously validating the stories,
which are so often dismissed as lore by the public at large-</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">-Jamie Franklin, Curator Bennington Museum. 2013.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"> <span style="color: red;">Stories can be sent to: </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">jfranklin@benningtonmuseum.org richmondsculpture@yahoo.com </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Bennington Museum 75 Main Street, Bennington, Vermont 05201 </span></div>
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<a href="http://searchforthecatamount.blogspot.com/p/cat-sounds-sightings.html"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Link to entire article</span></a><br />
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A project in collaboration with Jamie Franklin, Curator of the Bennington Museum and People of the New England Region.</div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: xx-small;">2013. Marble Story Marker. Re-purposed Sidewalk Fragment.</span><br />
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Daniel Richmondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00059559584199882497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-510542686235052207.post-6724929615957965522011-08-19T13:28:00.000-07:002013-11-11T15:59:15.324-08:00Bennington Banner Archives<div>
<span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>Bennington Banner January 12, 1946: Ginger's Travel Talk Excerpt:</b></span></div>
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<b>"Again, lately several places up state are disturbed over the reported presence of panthers or maybe one panther who visits around and allows himself to be seen mostly in</b><b> <span style="color: lime;"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Windsor</span> </span>and <span style="color: #e69138;">Orange </span>counties but occasionally slips over into <span style="color: cyan;">Addison</span> and <span style="color: #93c47d;">Rutland<span style="color: black;">."</span></span> </b></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7;">Other Bennington Banner Panther mentions:</span></div>
July 24, 1946: One seen in Heartwellville July 22nd<br />
July 27, 1946: Fearson sees one in Readsboro<br />
April 8, 1946: Prowls Searsburg Hills<br />
October 19, 1945: Black type visits James Johnson's poultry house. Daniel Richmondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00059559584199882497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-510542686235052207.post-39091707765635243362011-08-19T13:17:00.000-07:002011-08-31T14:42:15.849-07:00Deer Hunter Encounters Lion.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyDRfTfT4shvUxbWFaQiCzLIJGBC7SEgQ1_AFO9A8jh8XjwyGx2oW6pZOlQcJAynLMg2BR93QGc-ZJaMzRpZCY26W7YO4cCKCQMUEltcjmf-9DvUhgXDHnM5kabTkJyW85E_NgBhObilk/s1600/farsideoftheswamp.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyDRfTfT4shvUxbWFaQiCzLIJGBC7SEgQ1_AFO9A8jh8XjwyGx2oW6pZOlQcJAynLMg2BR93QGc-ZJaMzRpZCY26W7YO4cCKCQMUEltcjmf-9DvUhgXDHnM5kabTkJyW85E_NgBhObilk/s200/farsideoftheswamp.jpg" width="184" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDk7aFnrQ5c6en_LG0vjgn1lpKdTFBsE2jwuhIR9YBAisRldA79IZv1rO6lZWx-T3hL_VmL6ELM-vZHBulVCKjwuvYDCxP5ZZ11uBzHv9iWVvg0hXO3OhyLt1JdXJ8fRkKFgxHJojCwtI/s1600/lionsand.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDk7aFnrQ5c6en_LG0vjgn1lpKdTFBsE2jwuhIR9YBAisRldA79IZv1rO6lZWx-T3hL_VmL6ELM-vZHBulVCKjwuvYDCxP5ZZ11uBzHv9iWVvg0hXO3OhyLt1JdXJ8fRkKFgxHJojCwtI/s200/lionsand.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
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<span style="color: red;"> Transcript to follow........</span>Daniel Richmondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00059559584199882497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-510542686235052207.post-65230042342738067872011-08-08T17:44:00.000-07:002011-08-31T14:42:07.890-07:00Old Bennington Eastern Cougar Spotted!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxeGFA5W3Rdl2OLwuhrXzMSHfL0m7u-n5IeIMmU2CEBQqH0ZZGGtVXEWyl0gJ1HY2ggQMenWn1yBt84BirgAg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br />
Daniel Richmondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00059559584199882497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-510542686235052207.post-78420322845581710092011-07-29T13:05:00.000-07:002011-08-31T14:42:00.625-07:00Stories of Lions 2009<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9zNSsmBuRf8GeMH5VRUu58_p3zSciHJ8UDuv9XQnN6YPwjlbKp6qXZShUguoa08MIhBaTM5RUgxJ5Nkrn6-5MVc7J2WzU_X8JIVx1tMwIh9J0j5iqbQWnIFx-k7CQss1ROcSjGgSJ3qA/s1600/IMG_1496.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9zNSsmBuRf8GeMH5VRUu58_p3zSciHJ8UDuv9XQnN6YPwjlbKp6qXZShUguoa08MIhBaTM5RUgxJ5Nkrn6-5MVc7J2WzU_X8JIVx1tMwIh9J0j5iqbQWnIFx-k7CQss1ROcSjGgSJ3qA/s200/IMG_1496.JPG" width="200" /></a></div>P. Katz on the porch of Powers Market tells us about the animal he saw crossing the road in Shaftsbury, Vermont<br />
<div style="color: #93c47d;"><i><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">He looked just like the bronze of the mountain lion in Old Bennington, just a classic mountain lion.</span></i></div><br />
<span style="color: red;">OK I saw the mountain lion in the summer of 2009. We were driving on the White Creek </span><span style="color: red;">road. My wife and I before we got to Cold Spring road</span>. <span style="color: red;">About thirty feet in front of us a mountain lion crossed the road, we stopped the car. He crossed the road slowly. We had a very good look at him. I said to my wife "Do you see what I see?" she said "I can't believe what I am seeing.</span><span style="color: red;">" He was close enough there was no mistaking what it was</span>. We were thrilled, one of the most exciting things that happened to me that summer, it is thrilling to see one of those things.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span style="color: red;">My personal experience with a mountain lion. Initially the first time I was driving home at night in December, it was probably 1993 & the road I live on is rural & I saw for less than a second and a half an animal cross the road in front of me that came out of the side of the road and it touched the yellow line and was gone in a flash.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span style="color: red;">It was long, lean and had a three foot long tail.This was at night and the headlights were on the animal & I would have gone back to look for tracks but there wasn't any snow.</span></span><br />
<div style="color: #6aa84f;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">Do you remember the color?</span></b></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: red;">Tawny-beautiful and there was no mistaking it when you see one-You know a coyote has a puffy tail and a deer has a white short tail and there is nothing else that has a three foot long tail that looks like a sausage. <span style="color: black;"> </span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">There was no way I was going to catch a glimpse in the woods it was dark. I was amazed and ecstatic-never thought I would see one again.</span></span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span> </span></span>Daniel Richmondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00059559584199882497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-510542686235052207.post-58687801100029626592011-07-27T20:21:00.000-07:002011-08-31T14:41:38.160-07:00The Barnard Monster 1881.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dy7HuS_3R1Vn-wc60RJRD9W-DgzoNnLehQbr7aPF36TZ6GZZme9o6-vuAfbufKPFDjtpeKDjb0xtjZXlZeEcw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Curator of the Bennington Museum Jamie Franklin shows us the 'Barnard Monster' </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Eastern Mountain Lion.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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