Decade of the Wolf - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Decade of the Wolf write by Douglas Smith. This book was released on 2012-04-17. Decade of the Wolf available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Decade of the Wolf, project leader Douglas W. Smith and acclaimed nature writer Gary Ferguson describe the journey of thirty-one Canadian gray wolves that were released in 1995 and 1996 into Yellowstone National Park and the people who faithfully followed them. The wolves have not only survived but completely changed the ecosystem, spilling a fresh measure of wildness across the world’s first national park. This updated edition includes additional wolf profiles, newinformation on the effects of climate change and disease, and a retrospective on what the scientists have learned during this extended study of the Yellowstone wolves.
Yellowstone Wolves
Yellowstone Wolves - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Yellowstone Wolves write by Douglas W. Smith. This book was released on 2020-12-28. Yellowstone Wolves available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This beautifully illustrated volume on the Yellowstone Wolf Project includes an introduction by Jane Goodall and an exclusive online documentary. The reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park was one of the greatest wildlife conservation achievements of the twentieth century. Eradicated after the park was first established, these iconic carnivores returned in 1995 when the US government reversed its century-old policy of extermination. In the intervening decades, scientists have built a one-of-a-kind field study of these wolves, their behaviors, and their influence on the entire ecosystem. Yellowstone Wolves tells the incredible story of the Yellowstone Wolf Project, as told by the people behind it. This wide-ranging volume highlights what has been learned in the decades since reintroduction, as well as the unique blend of research techniques used to gain this knowledge. We learn about individual wolves, population dynamics, wolf-prey relationships, genetics, disease, management and policy, and the rippling ecosystem effects wolves have had on Yellowstone’s wild and rare landscape. Featuring a foreword by Jane Goodall, beautiful images, a companion online documentary by celebrated filmmaker Bob Landis, and contributions from more than seventy wolf and wildlife conservation luminaries from Yellowstone and around the world, Yellowstone Wolves is an informative and beautifully realized celebration of the extraordinary Yellowstone Wolf Project.
The Return of the Wolf to Yellowstone
The Return of the Wolf to Yellowstone - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Return of the Wolf to Yellowstone write by Thomas McNamee. This book was released on 1998-05-15. The Return of the Wolf to Yellowstone available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Is easy to see why this saga has stirred the imagination of a nation, for it is, indeed, the environmental story of the decade.
War Against the Wolf
War Against the Wolf - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook War Against the Wolf write by Rick McIntyre. This book was released on 1995. War Against the Wolf available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A compilation of journal entries, essays, reports, government documents, and articles on the history of American attitudes towards wolves.
The Killing of Wolf Number Ten
The Killing of Wolf Number Ten - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Killing of Wolf Number Ten write by Thomas McNamee. This book was released on 2014-06-03. The Killing of Wolf Number Ten available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A killer. A manhunt. The triumph of justice and of the wolf. The greatest event in Yellowstone history. Greater Yellowstone was the last great truly intact ecosystem in the temperate zones of the earth—until, in the 1920s, U.S. government agents exterminated its top predator, the gray wolf. With traps and rifles, even torching pups in their dens, the killing campaign was entirely successful. The howl of the “evil” wolf was heard no more. The “good” animals—elk, deer, bison—proliferated, until they too had to be “managed.” Two decades later, recognizing that ecosystems lacking their keystone predators tend to unravel, the visionary naturalist Aldo Leopold called for the return of the wolf to Yellowstone. It would take another fifty years for his vision to come true. In the early 1990s, as the movement for Yellowstone wolf restoration gained momentum, rage against it grew apace. When at last, in February 1995, fifteen wolves were trapped in Alberta and brought to acclimation pens in Yellowstone, even then legal and political challenges continued. There was also a lot of talk in the bars about “shoot, shovel, and shut up.” While the wolves’ enemies worked to return them to Canada, the biologists in charge of the project feared that the wolves might well return on their own. Once they were released, two packs remained in the national park, but one bore only one pup and the other none. The other, comprising Wolves Nine and Ten and Nine’s yearling daughter, disappeared. They were in fact heading home. As they emerged from protected federal land, an unemployed ne’er-do-well from Red Lodge, Montana, trained a high-powered rifle on Wolf Number Ten and shot him through the chest. Number Nine dug a den next to the body of her mate, and gave birth to eight pups. The story of their rescue and the manhunt for the killer is the heart of The Killing of Wolf Number Ten. + Read this book, and if you are ever fortunate enough to hear the howling of Yellowstone wolves, you will always think of Wolves Nine and Ten. If you ever see a Yellowstone wolf, chance are it will be carrying their DNA. The restoration of the wolf to Yellowstone is now recognized as one of conservation’s greatest achievements, and Wolves Nine and Ten will always be known as its emblematic heroes.
