William Stolzenburg
Author of Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators
About the Author
William Stolzenburg writes about the science and spirit of saving wild creatures. He has written hundreds of magazine articles and was a 2010 Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellow. He is also the author of the book Where the Wild Things Were, and the Screenwriter of the documentary Lords of Nature: show more Life in a Land of Great Predators. He lives in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, and Fairfax, Virginia. show less
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Here's the basics slightly edited: Late one June night in 2011, a large animal collides with an SUV cruising down Connecticut's scenic Merritt Parkway. The creature appears as something out of New England's forgotten past. Beside the road lay a 140-pound mountain lion.
Stolzenburg traces the mountain lion's 1,000 trek from the Black Hills of South Dakota along with the history of hunting/protecting this majestic creature, that seems to have a history of avoiding humans, not killing them.
Made me think of two Disney classics: The Incredible Journey, where two dogs and a cat get separated from their family and find their way home, and Charlie, the Lonesome Cougar. Sad ending.… (more)