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Ghostwalker: Tracking a Mountain Lion's Soul through Science and Story
After encountering mountain lion tracks near her home outside Yellowstone National Park, Leslie Patten began a journey to learn above these elusive, unseen animals by collecting anecdotal information and then interviewing biologists, professional trackers, houndsmen, and conservationists.
311 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 1, 2024
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Leslie Patten
15 books7 followersLeslie Patten has an unusual combination of experience that allows her to write her new book The Wild Excellence. She is a published author of Biocircuits: Amazing New Tools for Energy Health. She also has written several eBooks on gardening, and has kept an online blog journal for many years on wildlife issues from her home in the remote regions next to Yellowstone National Park.
Leslie has worked with land her entire life. She is an avid gardener, and still practices as a professional landscape designer in Marin County, California. She has a degree in horticulture, a certificate of design from The San Francisco Botanical Garden at Strybing Arboretum, as well as two years of formal naturalist training from the College of Marin. She spent over five years working with elementary school children in Muir Woods National Monument and Muir Beach, teaching them about ecology and the natural world. She also worked on a three year spotted owl study conducted by the Golden Gate National Recreation Area locating owl nest sites and conducting chick counts. Patten is a member of the Marin County Tracking Club and spent over thirteen years in a spiritual community studying meditation.
Since moving to Wyoming in 2005, she has helped on wolf, elk and grizzly bear studies, as well as The Gloria Project, a climate change study, in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. She volunteers at the Draper Natural History lab of the Buffalo Bill Museum of the West preparing museum quality specimens of birds and mammals. Leslie enjoys hiking with her dog Koda and exploring the Greater Yellowstone Area.
Leslie has worked with land her entire life. She is an avid gardener, and still practices as a professional landscape designer in Marin County, California. She has a degree in horticulture, a certificate of design from The San Francisco Botanical Garden at Strybing Arboretum, as well as two years of formal naturalist training from the College of Marin. She spent over five years working with elementary school children in Muir Woods National Monument and Muir Beach, teaching them about ecology and the natural world. She also worked on a three year spotted owl study conducted by the Golden Gate National Recreation Area locating owl nest sites and conducting chick counts. Patten is a member of the Marin County Tracking Club and spent over thirteen years in a spiritual community studying meditation.
Since moving to Wyoming in 2005, she has helped on wolf, elk and grizzly bear studies, as well as The Gloria Project, a climate change study, in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. She volunteers at the Draper Natural History lab of the Buffalo Bill Museum of the West preparing museum quality specimens of birds and mammals. Leslie enjoys hiking with her dog Koda and exploring the Greater Yellowstone Area.
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