From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  January/February 2013:

Snow Leopard:  Stories from the Roof of the World Edited by Don Hunter Univ. Press of Colorado (5589 Arapahoe Ave.,  Suite 206-C,  Boulder, CO 80303),  2012.  216 pages.  Hardcover $26.95,  e-book $21.95.

Don Hunter,  who assembled Snow Leopard:  Stories from the Roof of the World,  acknowledges inspiration and help in arranging publication from wildlife ethologist Marc Bekoff,  co-editor of the 2008 anthology Listening to Cougar. Like Listening to Cougar,  Hunter’s anthology collects first-person recollections of encounters with a seldom-seen big cat–but,  while thousands of people per year catch at least fleeting glimpses of a puma,  mere dozens see snow leopards. Read more

From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  November/December 2012:

Nature Wars:  The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards Into Battlegrounds by Jim Sterba   Crown Publishers  (c/o Random House,  1745 Broadway,  New York,  NY 10019), 2012.  336 pages,  hardcover.  $26.00.

Born in 1943,  during the deprivations of World War II and just after the Great Depression, Jim Sterba grew up hunting in rural Michigan. Sterba considers himself a lifelong conservationist, but “conservation” in his formative years meant little more than promoting hunting practices that helped to ensure abundant “game”–albeit for people who hunted for meat, as his family did,  not just for sport,  like the European nobility who originated the conservation movement around 200 years earlier in response to the Industrial Revolution and fencing the grazing commons. Read more