Path of the Puma

Jim Williams has spent his entire life finding the wild. Jim left the farm country of Iowa and spent his formative years as a young surf bum turned biology student in the Pacific Beach area of San Diego. He did his undergraduate work at San Diego State and Florida State Universities and his graduate studies at Montana State University in Bozeman. Jim is an award-winning, professionally certified wildlife biologist and has been working for Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks for 25 years. Jim studied mountain lion ecology for his Master's Degree on Montana's Rocky Mountain Front and has been working on mountain lion and other wildlife conservation issues in various roles ever since. He has been working with biologists in Chile and Argentina on a variety of wildlife conservation projects. Jim and his wife Melora live and work in Montana’s beautiful Flathead Valley just west of Glacier National Park. Joe Glickman was the author of Fearless: One Woman, One Kayak, One Continent (Falcon Guide, 2012), The Kayak Companion (Storey, 2003), and To the Top (Northword, 2003). Glickman's work has appeared in The New York Times, The Daily News, Newsday, The Village Voice, Outside, Men's Journal, Inside Sports, Adventure Cyclist, Runner's World, US, EcoTraveler, The Paddler, Sea Kayaker, Women's Sports & Fitness, and Brooklyn Bridge. He co-wrote (with Allen Barra) That's Not the Way It Was, a book about myths in sports. A wildlife biologist who studied mountain goats and grizzlies in the Rockies, elephants in Africa, and whales in the world's oceans, Doug Chadwick also writes about natural history, conservation, and wildlife around the world, from right whales in the sub-Antarctic to snow leopards in the Himalayas, producing close to fifty articles for National Geographic magazine. In addition, he has written thirteen books about wildlife and conservation, including The Wolverine Way, Tracking Gobi Grizzlies, Yellowstone to Yukon and the lead chapter in Crown of the Continent: The Wildest Rockies, a photographic celebration of the region's wildlife and scenic majesty.

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

• Foreword by Doug ChadwickPrologueChapter 1 The ChaseChapter 2 Finding the WildChapter 3 The FrontChapter 4 In the Beginning There Was BrazilChapter 5 Cows Not CondosChapter 6 The Crown of the ContinentChapter 7 Oh CaribouChapter 8 Citizen ScienceChapter 9 There's a Lion in My BackyardChapter 10 Down South, Way Down SouthChapter 11 Welcome to the End of the WorldChapter 12 Altered Landscape of Dreams Chapter 13 Ranching for WildlifeChapter 14 Pumas Below AconcaguaChapter 15 Pumas and Penguins at the End of the WorldChapter 16 Kodkods and Other Cool CatsChapter 17 Rewilding PatagoniaChapter 18 Road to the Park at the Bottom of the WorldChapter 19 Arcilio the Puma TrackerChapter 20 A Trophic Cascade of Colorful CreaturesChapter 21 MontanagoniaEpilogue