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This thing weighed more than 40 pounds, according to Holden’s admittedly rough estimate. She reached out, seeking other witnesses. She wrote on Facebook earlier this month. Holden’s home is in Chichester, near the Epsom town line. Whether or not the mountain lion still roams the woods is on the minds of people who live in the Epsom region and elsewhere in the Suncook Valley. “I will say that I can not rule out what they say, but at the same time, I can not verify what they saw.” Tate was mindful to show respect to anyone who calls his office to claim that they saw a mountain lion. “And those photos to date have been bobcats.” “Out of those three or five sightings per week, one or two will come with photos,” Tate said. He says people sometimes show him photographic proof. Tate says reports of mountain lion sightings to conservation officers have gone up lately, to three to five per week. “The most common species (seen) is the bobcat, and people, in their eyes, say they see a mountain lion.” “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.