This book's gift
to its readers is a humbling, sobering, and
necessary perspective on nature and on our
inability to accommodate its terrible beauty.
--Richard Manning, author of Food's Frontier and Inside Passage
A mountain lion gives birth under a porch in Boulder, Colorado. Another saunters into the parking garage of a swank hotel in Victoria, British Columbia. In the hills outside Sacramento, the remains of a jogger are found buried in a shallow grave, the story of her death told in a confusion of animal tracks and a blood-stained sun visor.
Where western wilderness unravels into suburbia, at the intersection of a recovering species and a human population hungry for space, the common wisdom that cougars prefer to avoid people has given way to a more complex reality: Mountain lions move in the shadows of our homes, and a few of them hunt there. In this gripping look at the myths and realities of cougar and human interactions, Jo Deurbrouck takes us from the fieldwork of researchers to the near misses of those who faced down these predators to those rare, horrifying moments when everything went wrong.
--Richard Manning, author of Food's Frontier and Inside Passage
A mountain lion gives birth under a porch in Boulder, Colorado. Another saunters into the parking garage of a swank hotel in Victoria, British Columbia. In the hills outside Sacramento, the remains of a jogger are found buried in a shallow grave, the story of her death told in a confusion of animal tracks and a blood-stained sun visor.
Where western wilderness unravels into suburbia, at the intersection of a recovering species and a human population hungry for space, the common wisdom that cougars prefer to avoid people has given way to a more complex reality: Mountain lions move in the shadows of our homes, and a few of them hunt there. In this gripping look at the myths and realities of cougar and human interactions, Jo Deurbrouck takes us from the fieldwork of researchers to the near misses of those who faced down these predators to those rare, horrifying moments when everything went wrong.
Publisher: Falcon Press Publishing
Pub. Date: February 2007
ISBN-13: 9780762743155
208pp
Edition Description: 1ST (revision of out-of-print title)
Pub. Date: February 2007
ISBN-13: 9780762743155
208pp
Edition Description: 1ST (revision of out-of-print title)