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Yellowstone National Park was once home to an abundance of wild wolves--but park rangers killed the last of their kind in the 1920s. Decades later, the rangers brought them back, with the first wolves arriving from Canada in 1995. This is the incredible true story of one of those wolves. Wolf 8 struggles at first--he is smaller than the other pups, and often bullied--but soon he bonds with an alpha female whose mate was shot. An unusually young alpha male, barely a teenager in human years, Wolf 8 rises to the occasion, hunting skillfully, and even defending his family from the wolf who killed his father. But soon he faces a new opponent: his adopted son, who mates with a violent alpha female. Can Wolf 8 protect his valley without harming his protâegâe? Authored by a renowned wolf researcher and gifted storyteller, The Rise of Wolf 8 marks the beginning of an original and bold new trilogy, which will transform our view of wolves forever.
List of contents
Principal WolvesMap of Northeast Yellowstone National ParkForeword by Robert RedfordPrologue1. Wolf Interpreter
2. Wolves Arrive in Yellowstone
3. My First Wolf Sighting
4. The Little Wolf and the Big Grizzly Bear
5. The Rose Creek and Crystal Creek Pens
6. The Rose Creek Wolves Get a New Alpha Male
7. The Arrival of the Druids
8. A New Pack Is Formed
9. Getting to Know 8’s Family
10. The Battle of Slough Creek
11. The Games Pups Play
12. Den Troubles for the Rose Creek Wolves
13. Druid and Leopold Pups
14. Romeo and Juliet in Yellowstone
15. When 21 Met 42
16. A New Era for the Druids
17. The Character of a Wolf
18. The Chief Joseph Pack
19. Family Life with the Druids
20. The Spring of 1999
21. Life at the Druid Den
22. Moving On to the Rendezvous Site
23. The Stubborn Pup
24. The Druid Yearling Comes into His Own
25. My First Yellowstone Winter
26. December in Yellowstone
27. The Battle of Specimen Ridge
Epilogue: NemesisAfterword by Douglas W. SmithAuthor’s NoteAcknowledgmentsReferences and Suggested ResourcesIndex
About the author
RICK MCINTYRE has spent more than fifty years watching wolves in America’s national parks, twenty-five of those years in Yellowstone, where he has accumulated over 100,000 wolf sightings and educated the public about the park’s most famous wolves. He has spoken about the Yellowstone wolves with
60 Minutes, NPR, and CBC, and he is profiled extensively in Nate Blakeslee’s
American Wolf and in international publications. He lives in Silver Gate, Montana.
ROBERT REDFORD—actor, director, and producer—has been a passionate art and environmental activist since the early 1970s. He has been an advocate for climate change awareness, clean energy, and habitat protection for over forty years.
Summary
The astonishing true story of one of the first wolves to roam Yellowstone in more than 60 years. Authored by a renowned wolf researcher and gifted storyteller, this title launches an original and bold new trilogy, which will transform our view of wolves forever..
Foreword
An Amazon.com Best Science Book of 2019!
Runnerup — 2020 Reading the West Book Awards!
Named a Notable Book by the 2019 Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Awards!
“[McIntyre's] greatest strength is the quiet respect and wonder with which he regards his subjects, a quality clearly informed by decades of careful watching."
—Publishers Weekly
“Rick's book [The Rise of Wolf 8] is a goldmine for information on all aspects of wolf behavior and clearly shows they are clever, smart, and emotional beings."
—Psychology Today
“The main attraction of this book, though, is the storytelling about individual wolves, including the powerful origin story of one of Yellowstone’s greatest and most famous wolves."
—Washington Post
“Yellowstone’s resident wolf guru Rick McIntyre has been many things to many people: an expert tracker for the park’s biologists, an indefatigable roadside interpreter for visitors, and an invaluable consultant to countless chronicles of the park’s wolves—including my own. But he is first and foremost a storyteller whose encyclopedic knowledge of Yellowstone’s wolf reintroduction project—now in its 25th year—is unparalleled.”
—Nate Blakeslee, New York Times bestselling author of American Wolf
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An Amazon.com Best Science Book of 2019!
Runnerup — 2020 Reading the West Book Awards!
Named a Notable Book by the 2019 Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Awards!
“[McIntyre's] greatest strength is the quiet respect and wonder with which he regards his subjects, a quality clearly informed by decades of careful watching."
—Publishers Weekly
“Rick's book [The Rise of Wolf 8] is a goldmine for information on all aspects of wolf behavior and clearly shows they are clever, smart, and emotional beings."
—Psychology Today
“The main attraction of this book, though, is the storytelling about individual wolves, including the powerful origin story of one of Yellowstone’s greatest and most famous wolves."
—Washington Post
“Yellowstone’s resident wolf guru Rick McIntyre has been many things to many people: an expert tracker for the park’s biologists, an indefatigable roadside interpreter for visitors, and an invaluable consultant to countless chronicles of the park’s wolves—including my own. But he is first and foremost a storyteller whose encyclopedic knowledge of Yellowstone’s wolf reintroduction project—now in its 25th year—is unparalleled.”
—Nate Blakeslee, New York Times bestselling author of American Wolf
