Intended for an audience of scientists, wildlife managers, conservationists, and academics, the book also sets a theoretical precedent for writing about competition between carnivorous mammals. Yellowstone Cougars provides objective scientific data at the forefront of understanding cougars and large carnivore community structure and management issues in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, as well as in other areas where wolves and cougars are reestablishing. Learn about each of the main causes and what can be done to prevent them. The authors move beyond a single-species approach to cougar management and conservation to one that considers multiple species, which was impossible to untangle before wolf reestablishment in the Yellowstone area provided biologists with this research opportunity. The top 12 causes of death in the United States account for more than 75 percent of all deaths. and most recently a co-author of Death and Survival in Glacier National. Of practical importance, Yellowstone Cougars addresses the management and conservation of multiple carnivores in increasingly human-dominated landscapes. Guthrie, author of eight books, including Glacier National Park's. The authors provide a thorough analysis of cougar ecology, how they interact with and are influenced by wolves-their main competitor-and how this knowledge informs management and conservation of both species across the West. No other study has ever specifically addressed the theoretical and practical aspects of competition between large carnivores in North America. Yellowstone Cougars examines the effect of wolf restoration on the cougar population in Yellowstone National Park-one of the largest national parks in the American West.
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