The sighting of a cougar on June 19, heading down the driveway of a Boultbee Road cabin set off a whirl wind of precautionary telephone calls along the road and to neighbouring McCarthy Road residents. Although the occupancy rate is up due to the recreational season, efforts were made by residents to contact all the known visitors by local land lines, known cell phone numbers or in person. Cougars on Boultbee Road are rare but their reputation for nasty incidents in the Bridge Lake area over the past years make them entirely unwelcome in any residential area. Once again, we are reminded of just what it means to be living on the edge of the wilderness. Bears, badgers and now cougars could be encountered any time.