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BECOMING WOLF: THE EASTERN COYOTE
A talk with Christine Schadler, an expert in wolves and wild canids
NO FEE: Sponsored by the Carolina Crapo Education Fund, a Sugar Hill Improvement
Association Fund
DATE: Thursday, October 9, 2025
TIME: 4:30 – 6:00 pm
SUGAR HILL LOCATION: Sugar Hill Meetinghouse 1448 Route 117, Sugar Hill, NH 03586
If you were in Sugar Hill on the night of the full Harvest Moon, you could hear the coyotes
talking back and forth to each other, their barks and snarls echoing back from Garnet Hill and wafting down the hill into Franconia. From Sunset Hill, they sounded very close. Here’s an opportunity to learn a little bit about these vocal canid neighbors of ours.
OUR SPEAKER, CHRISTINE SCHADLER:
On Thursday, October 9, The Sugar Hill Improvement Association is sponsoring a talk by Christine Schadler, an expert in “wild canids” like the wolf and the coyote. Chris has a long and very successful career on this very subject matter. Chris’ interest in wild canids began in the 1970s as a volunteer at Wolf Park in Battleground, Indiana. This opportunity and others inspired her to pursue a Masters in Conservation Biology at Antioch University in Keene. Her thesis focused on the Natural Recovery of the Eastern Timber Wolf in Michigan. Chris has 40 years of research and specialization in wild canids, particularly the Eastern Wolf and the Eastern Coyote. Now retired from teaching Conservation, Dendrology and Wolf Ecology at UNH and Conservation at Granite
State College, she provides education and presentations on coyotes and the wolf throughout New England.
OUR TOPIC: COYOTES AND WOLVES
Did you know that an eastern coyote is defined as much by its western coyote ancestry as by the DNA contribution from the eastern wolf? Coyotes in the northeast vary physically and behaviorally from their smaller western relatives while still maintaining their incredible adaptability. Chris’s talk delves into the ecology and behavior of this creature, its indefatigability, and how humans must adapt to live with the coyote.
On the horizon, however, is a native carnivore that fled the northeast during wolf removal and now may be trying to return: The eastern wolf. A look-alike to the coyote, it has been killed mistakenly for its similarity of appearance to the coyote. We’ll talk about how the wolf and coyote might negotiate a truce in the northeast and how we might do the same.
PHOTO OPPORTUNITIES AND REFRESHMENTS
The Sugar Hill Improvement Association invites the public to this talk–free of charge–on
Thursday, October 9 at 4:30 pm. The talk will take place at The Sugar Hill Meetinghouse at 1448 Route 117 in Sugar Hill. Light refreshments will be served.
As an extra treat, an area doctor has offered to lend his taxidermized Wolf (rumored to be quite large) and Coyote to us for this talk, so be sure to bring your camera with you!
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NHE911 C.A.R.E.S. Program
The NHE911 Office is reaching out to share information about the New Hampshire 911 C.A.R.E.S. Program. The Citizen Assistance Registry for Emergency Services program allows individuals to register medical conditions along with other important information that can impact the 911 call under their phone number. When911 receives a phone call from a registered telephone number of a C.A.R.E.S. Individual, the medical condition(s), home address, and other information submitted by the account holder is displayed on the 911 telecommunicator’s computer screen and can be shared with first responders so they can have a better understanding of the emergency before they even arrive on scene.
Attached is the 911 C.A.R.E.S. brochure, which we are sharing with residents through the town website, and newsletter. New Hampshire 911 CARES Brochure
EVERSOURCE POLE REPLACEMENT INFORMATION
As part of our ongoing investments to deliver reliable energy to our customers and communities, Eversource will be replacing existing wooden pole structures in Campton, Thornton, Woodstock, Lincoln, Easton, Sugar Hill, Bethlehem, Dalton, and Whitefield, N.H. This work will be taking place within the existing right-of-way (power line corridor) of the X178 Line, a 115kV transmission line.
This transmission line is 49 miles long and is located between the Beebe River Substation in Campton and the Whitefield Substation in Whitefield, N.H. In total, 470 wooden H-frame structures will be replaced, and new conductor (power line) and fiber optic cable, known as Optical Ground Wire (OPGW), will be installed the length of the line. The project also includes replacing poles along the Streeter Pond Tap, a 225-foot-long power line that connects the U199 transmission line to the X178 line in Sugar Hill.
BEEBE RIVER TO WHITEFIELD (x178) LINE REBUILD PROJECT
GENASYS PROTECT Emergency Notification System
The Sugar Hill Emergency Management Director (EMD), Fire and Police Departments, in partnership with the Grafton County Sheriff’s Department, have changed to a new Emergency Notification System.
It is important that all residents and businesses within the dispatch area subscribe to the system to ensure proper notification can be made during an emergency. Subscription is quick and easy, and your information will remain confidential within our system and not be used for any other purpose.
PLEASE DOWNLOAD THE NEW ALERT SYSTEM
https://sugarhillnh.genasys.com/portal/en
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