1448 Route 117 Sugar Hill NH 03586
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 (no fee)
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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