Heart of a lion by william stolzenburg5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() Heart of a Lion is the story of hope, both retracing the deep history of our complicated attitudes toward predators and recounting the adventures of one particular mountain lion – a transient three-year-old male that left the Black Hills and wandered east for two years and two thousand miles until it was stopped by an SUV on the Wilbur Cross Parkway in Milford, Connecticut. But the main point of the book is that the journey can be done – has been done – and will continue to be attempted. To reach us, mountain lions would have to venture out of south Florida or southwestern South Dakota, our two closest resident populations. ![]() Until I read William Stolzenburg’s Heart of a Lion, I had assumed my wait might be rather long – if not forever. Not just one or two mountain lions, mind you, but viable breeding populations that haunt deer, ratcheting their attention, honing their alertness and mobility, keeping them perpetually on the lookout for silent, six-foot-long predators with explosive, spring-loaded hind legs beasts with white, velvety muzzles and honey colored hides hemispheric, border-crossing cats with a collection of names that matches their remarkable distribution. I hope to live long enough to see catamounts come home to the Northeast. ![]()
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