![]() At that time he was probably about one and a half years old, a young male just coming into adulthood. ![]() This cougar’s odyssey across America was even more incredible, wasn’t it?Īs far as we know, he started out from the Black Hills of South Dakota sometime in the late summer of 2009. One of my favorite children’s books was The Incredible Journey, by Sheila Burnford. (Find out how cougars are making a comeback.) Speaking from his home in Reno, Nevada, he explains why cougars have a bad rap how anyone in South Dakota with a $28 hunting license can shoot one and how, with more tolerance and some adjustments to our lifestyles, we can happily coexist with these magnificent animals. William Stolzenburg chronicles the mountain lion’s epic journey in Heart of a Lion: A Lone Cat’s Walk Across America. (Learn how cougars could spread throughout the Midwest.) Along the way, like Hansel and Gretel’s bread crumbs, he left a genetic trail-tufts of fur, scat, leftover kills-that would eventually confirm what no one believed possible. Wherever he appeared, he caused a mixture of awe and panic. And kept going-east across the Great Plains to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and on to New England, through backyards and parking lots, across highways and railroad tracks, driven by the most powerful force on earth. ![]() ![]() In the late summer of 2009, a young male cougar set off from the Black Hills of South Dakota to look for a mate. ![]()
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