Leslie Patten grew up in the Los Angeles area and went to college at the University of Santa Cruz. While living in Northern California and raising a family, she worked as a horticulture and habitat specialist. Her garden designs have been featured in Mill Valley’s Outdoor Art Club Garden Tours, the Marin Independent Journal, Marin Art & Garden Center tours, the Garden Conservancy, and Marin County Stormwater Pollution Prevention Program tours. In 1998, she went back to school to obtain training as a naturalist and became involved in the Marin Tracking Club of Point Reyes. After many years of backpacking in the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming, Patten decided to take the plunge and move to Wyoming. There she remodeled an old log cabin adjacent to the eastern edge of Yellowstone National Park as her full-time home. Shortly after moving, Patten began volunteering at The Buffalo Bill Museum of the West. There she prepared bird and mammal specimens, completed an herbarium of Shoshone National Forest plant material, and measured over 300 wolf skulls for scientific research. Patten is the author of several eBooks on gardening, along with several paperback— BioCircuits: Amazing New Tools for Energy Health, and The Wild Excellence: Notes from Untamed America. Her latest book, Ghostwalker: Tracking a Mountain Lion's Soul through Science and Story is also available through Amazon.
