Jim WilliamsPath of the Puma
The Remarkable Resilience of the Mountain Lion
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.
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
