In 2020, it will have been twenty-five years since one of the
greatest wildlife conservation and restoration achievements of the
twentieth century took place: the reintroduction of wolves to the
world's first national park, Yellowstone. Eradicated after the park
was established, then absent for seventy years, these iconic
carnivores returned to Yellowstone in 1995 when the US government
reversed its century-old policy of extermination and--despite some
political and cultural opposition--began the reintroduction of
forty-one wild wolves from Canada and northwest Montana. In the
intervening decades, scientists have studied their myriad
behaviors, from predation to mating to wolf-pup play, building a
one-of-a-kind field study that has both allowed us to witness how
the arrival of top predators can change an entire ecosystem and
provided a critical window into impacts on prey, pack composition,
and much else. Here, for the first time in a single book, is the
incredible story of the wolves' return to Yellowstone National Park
as told by the very people responsible for their reintroduction,
study, and management. Anchored in what we have learned from
Yellowstone, highlighting the unique blend of research techniques
that have given us this knowledge, and addressing the major issues
that wolves still face today, this book is as wide-ranging and
awe-inspiring as the Yellowstone restoration effort itself. We
learn about individual wolves, population dynamics, wolf-prey
relationships, genetics, disease, management and policy, newly
studied behaviors and interactions with other species, and the
rippling ecosystem effects wolves have had on Yellowstone's wild
and rare landscape. Perhaps most importantly of all, the book also
offers solutions to ongoing controversies and debates. 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 a
gripping, accessible celebration of the extraordinary Yellowstone
Wolf Project--and of the park through which these majestic and
important creatures once again roam.
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