Our readers mourn P-22 and reflect on the famous mountain lion's impact and what we can do now for his threatened species.
State officials ultimately decided to euthanize P-22 at 9 a.m. Saturday morning due to serious health issues.P-22, like the endangered Southern California steelhead, is my hero — wild, iconic, legendary and beautiful. He made me aware of the wildness of our mountains and the treacherous barriers we’ve created for wildlife movement. I want to fight even harder to protect our iconic wildlife and their habitats. We must coexist with nature.
He was the truest Angeleno there ever was. Whenever I would see the shadow of Griffith Park at night, knowing he was up there somewhere roaming his territory, I used to say a small prayer to P-22. It felt like communing with something real and ancient in a city obsessed with cheap newness. He was an icon, and inspiration, and lonely like the rest of us. He was the tether to L.A.’s wild soul. He meant so much to me, and Los Angeles is less of itself without him.
P-22 taught me that wild lions, the stuff of human nightmares, can spark your imagination about what life in Los Angeles is really about. It’s about the wild coexisting with a mega city, about accepting we are not the top predator here. I do a lot of field work and have encountered other lions here and it makes me proud and happy to live here, with a healthy dose of dread and chills when I am on their ground. RIP, P-22, and thank you for the wild times.I love hiking after dark.
I can’t pinpoint precisely why P-22’s death has caused me to sob like a close friend or family member has passed, but I know his presence here gave Los Angeles an extra bit of magic, majesty and a huge dose of humility to be reminded that our concrete jungle was all he had now as well. I can only hope his legacy will be to make it a touch easier for the next lion to be able to thrive among us.I am saddened by this news, but also deeply touched by this icon.
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