A Society of Wolves: National Parks and the Battle over the Wolf - Softcover

McIntyre, Rick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0896583252 ISBN 13: 9780896583252

Publisher: Voyageur Pr, 1996

Synopsis

McIntyre offers the most current details on the plight of wolves in the U.S. This revised edition includes a new chapter with text and exclusive photos capturing the first year of the reintroduced Yellowstone National Park wolves. In addition, readers learn about the current wolf recolonization in Glacier National Park, the red wolf reintroduction programs in Great Smoky Mountains National Park and in the Southeast, and hoped-for wolf restoration in the Northeast and Southwest.

“A must for all wolf aficionados,” said Dr. L. David Mech.

About this title

About the Author:

Rick McIntyre has served as a seasonal park ranger at such sites as Yellowstone, Denali, Glacier, and Big Bend national parks. His books include War Against the Wolf: America's Campaign to Exterminate the Wolf (Voyageur Press) and Grizzly Cub: Five Years in the Life of a Bear.

From Publishers Weekly:

In 1915 the federal government employed 300 full-time hunters and trappers to kill predators, mainly wolves. By the 1950s, except for isolated populations in the upper Midwest, the grey wolf had been exterminated in the continental U.S. As a park ranger for 15 years, McIntyre observed wolves in Denali and Glacier National Parks. While following one Denali Park wolf pack through the seasons, he examines in grisly detail the federal, state and local policies between 1870 and 1930. He notes that Adolph Murie's study of wolves from 1937 to 1944 changed park managers' perception of predators. Since the mid-'80s, grey wolves have been reintroduced to Glacier National Park, and red wolves to a reservation in North Carolina. Currently, there are controversal plans to reintroduce wolves in other parks. A group called Defenders of Wildlife supports a program that rewards landowners for allowing a wolf den on their property. McIntyre's photographs will captivate readers, but his narrative, interrupted throughout by extraneous digressions, is choppy. Photos.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Voyageur Pr
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0896583252
• ISBN 13: 9780896583252
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 143