Tracking the Ghost Cat with Phil Johnston - a podcast by Eli Weiss

Mountain lions capture our attention and imagination – their beauty and our fear of them. With my guest Phil Johnston, cougar biologist and certified professional Track and Sign Specialist, we dispel many of the false portrayals of mountain lions and gain perspective of the “ghost cat” through their eyes and their habitat and competition with other carnivores and increasing human encroachment into sub-rural areas. Mountain lions are coming down populated neighborhoods because we provide everything their prey needs. Understanding that artificial numbers of prey in human areas is a direct result of our alteration of the landscapes, as well as the deep and cascading and fatal consequences resulting from the poisons we put into the ecosystems from our homes, gardens and lawns. As we continuously expand into wilderness areas to live and recreate, we have the responsibility to make good choices when we go out into our wild world, where the wild ones live.

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