Vermont’s 1st Lynx in 39 Years?
Posted by: Loren Coleman on February 21st, 2007
The Associated Press is announcing that Vermont state wildlife biologists have said the Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis) is back:
Officials have confirmed the presence of a Canada lynx in Vermont for the first time in nearly 40 years. Wildlife biologists from Vermont and New Hampshire identified a set of lynx tracks in a state wildlife management area in Victory on Feb. 7. The Canada lynx is native to Vermont, but the population has always been small. The last time a lynx was spotted in Vermont was in 1968.
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About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct).
Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015.
Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
Lynx are beautiful creatures. If lynx are repopulating the forest, you know that the forest itself is healing. This is wonderful news.
Here in central Ontario (just below the line of the Mattawa River-Lake Nipissing-French River) two local hunters spotted a wolverine recently, which while not unheard of is extremely rare…this winter has had more deep cold weather (minus 30 celcius) than the past several winters, and the wolverine most definitely likes things cold. Also, the local deer population has seemingly exploded, almost surely a factor in recent cougar sightings, tracks, signs and anomalous deer kills over the past couple of years.
This does sound like great news 🙂
I like cats 🙂
Great news! As a person (maybe the only one reading this) who’s been in Victory VT many times, I’m not surprised in the least that’s where this evidence comes from. The Northeast Kingdom is famous for its rurality, but Victory is about as rural as you can get.
Whoa its great with Lynx’es?? not sure if i spelled right.
Well im swedish. Well i have never seen a lynx in wild but i would love to. They live in swedish forests and thats so cool!
Here in the South, a lynx is known as a “souped-up bobcat”. I hope they keep on coming, very cool cats.