Decade of the Wolf, Revised and Updated
Returning The Wild To Yellowstone

An unintended consequence of reading "Decade of the Wolf" was the way it stirred in me a certain ambivalence, as a hunter, over the return of wolves to the landscape. Naturally, I love to spend time in country where there is a fair amount of deer and moose sign (I live in north central Maine). I can......more

If you would not love an personal, guided tour of Yellowstone with Doug Smith then either 1) You have not thought about it hard enough or 2) You have not yet watched a sufficient number of nature documentaries on Netflix. Smith has studied wolves all his life, in the West and on Isle Royale, and he......more

listened to this driving around yellowstone and then ended up going out to look for wolves. we saw ~15 wolves!!! including 907, the oldest, and one-eyed, female wolf in yellowstone at 11 and her pups in a dog pile! absolutely insane, nature is so beautiful! go outside, and learn about the outdoors......more

This is probably the book I’ve read most times in my life, beginning in 2005, when my teachers read passages from it as we sat in the original Yellowstone pen where the wolves had been introduced from Canada, a decade before. The book is nothing short of magical to me, perfectly written and deeply p......more

A fascinating, on-point, and well written portrait of the wolves of Yellowstone and the story of their reintroduction into the park. A must read.......more