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.
This 208 pg. trade paperback is a substantial
revision of an out-of-print title I cowrote with
journalist Dean Miller, but if you read
our Cat
Attacks: True Stories and Hard Lessons from
Cougar Country (Sasquatch, 2001) you'll find
you already heard most of what I have to say on
the subject of coexisting with big predators.
It's just said better in Stalked.
