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.

The Sugar Hill Improvement Association invites the public to a talk on wolves, coyotes and other wild canids--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!

Our Speaker: 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.