“And I think in this empty world there was room for me and a mountain lion…”

The mythic ghost-cat ain’t coming back. Not on her own. The recently convened

  Cougars (a.k.a. mountain lions) once roamed throughout the east coast, but

9,000 feet, 7 AM, 20 degrees: First snow paints the bald pate above tree line on

—for Joan and Peter Wood  Mid-March in the Clove, between the Backslabs and Lost

By Christopher Spatz “We will all miss John, but I think none more so than

Silent for months, mostly he returns, traversing the shedding orchard, tree to apple

Featured image: Against the majestic backdrop of the Beartooth Range, January’s

By Christopher Spatz In their October 2018 Rewilding Earth article on Wildlife Governance

  Editor’s note: A longer version of this article ran previously in the newsletter