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During a time when most wild animals are experiencing decline in the face of development and climate change, the intrepid mountain lion -- also known as a puma, a cougar, and by many other names – has experienced reinvigoration as well as expansion of territory. What makes this cat, the fourth carnivore in the food chain -- just ahead of humans – so resilient and resourceful? And what can conservationists and wild life managers learn from them about the web of biodiversity that is in desperate need of protection? Their story is fascinating for the lessons it can afford the protection of all species in times of dire challenge and decline.
Price: $14.95
Publisher: Patagonia
Imprint: Patagonia
Publication Date:
October 9, 2018
ISBN: 9781938340734
Format: eBook
BISACs:
NATURE / Animals / Big Cats, NATURE / Animals / Wildlife, NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / Ethology (Animal Behavior)
Jim Williams's fascinating and inspiring Path of the Puma tracks mountain lions and their place in the ecosystem, showing what can be done to preserve their habitat while enjoying our own. -- Foreword Reviews
There’s a success story to be told, but it’s one with a mixed outcome, he notes. “America’s vast public lands, and Patagonia’s newly conserved parks, are a bulwark against the crush of humanity,” writes Williams. “But the trajectory—despite the recent success and expansion of Puma concolor —is toward more people and less wild nature. Predators will continue to prey on livestock. Ungulates will continue to compete for grass. Mountain lions will continue to prey on pets. Subdivisions will continue to consume habitat. Hunters will continue to compete with carnivores. Game managers will continue to be pressured by hunters.” -- National Parks Traveler
Written in accurate yet easy-to-understand scientific language, Williams’s heartfelt and comprehensive offering will appeal not only to wildlife biologists, but to nature lovers everywhere. -- Publishers Weekly
There’s a success story to be told, but it’s one with a mixed outcome, he notes. “America’s vast public lands, and Patagonia’s newly conserved parks, are a bulwark against the crush of humanity,” writes Williams. “But the trajectory—despite the recent success and expansion of Puma concolor —is toward more people and less wild nature. Predators will continue to prey on livestock. Ungulates will continue to compete for grass. Mountain lions will continue to prey on pets. Subdivisions will continue to consume habitat. Hunters will continue to compete with carnivores. Game managers will continue to be pressured by hunters.” -- National Parks Traveler
Written in accurate yet easy-to-understand scientific language, Williams’s heartfelt and comprehensive offering will appeal not only to wildlife biologists, but to nature lovers everywhere. -- Publishers Weekly
Starred Review
"The author's passion and his firsthand knowledge of his subject make the narrative highly readable. . . . A handsome book that is well-balanced, instructive, and authoritative." -- Kirkus Reviews
Foreword by Doug Chadwick
Prologue
Chapter 1 The Chase
Chapter 2 Finding the Wild
Chapter 3 The Front
Chapter 4 In the Beginning There Was Brazil
Chapter 5 Cows Not Condos
Chapter 6 The Crown of the Continent
Chapter 7 Oh Caribou
Chapter 8 Citizen Science
Chapter 9 There's a Lion in My Backyard
Chapter 10 Down South, Way Down South
Chapter 11 Welcome to the End of the World
Chapter 12 Altered Landscape of Dreams
Chapter 13 Ranching for Wildlife
Chapter 14 Pumas Below Aconcagua
Chapter 15 Pumas and Penguins at the End of the World
Chapter 16 Kodkods and Other Cool Cats
Chapter 17 Rewilding Patagonia
Chapter 18 Road to the Park at the Bottom of the World
Chapter 19 Arcilio the Puma Tracker
Chapter 20 A Trophic Cascade of Colorful Creatures
Chapter 21 Montanagonia
Epilogue