The Yellowstone Wolf: A Guide and Sourcebook

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All royalties from sales of this book go to Yellowstone’s wolf recovery project

Few animals inspire such a mixture of fear, curiosity, and wonder as the wolf. Highly regarded but often misunderstood, the wolf has as many friends as enemies, and its reintroduction into Yellowstone National Park has sparked both fascination and controversy.

Early in Yellowstone’s history, wolves were thought supernaturally evil, and scores were destroyed. Northern Rocky Mountain wolves were native to Yellowstone when the park was established in 1872, but “predator control” led to determined eradication, and by the 1940s they were gone. Amid much fanfare, however, wolves were reintroduced to one of the nation’s oldest national parks in the 1990s.

This comprehensive reference documents the prehistory, management, and nature of the Yellowstone wolf. Historian-naturalist Paul Schullery has assembled the voices of explorers, naturalists, park officials, tourists, lawmakers, and modern researchers to tell the story of what may be the most famous wolf population in the world. This unique book includes numerous scientific studies of interest to wolf enthusiasts and scholars of western wildlife issues, conservation, and national parks. In a new afterword, Schullery discusses recent developments in the recovery project.

About the Author:

Paul Schullery is a writer-editor with the National Park Service at Yellowstone National Park. Schullery is the author, coauthor, or editor of more than thirty books, including ten about Yellowstone.ÿ

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Yellowstone Wolf: A Guide and Sourcebook
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: Paperback
Condition: new