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Wolf Island recounts three extraordinary summers and winters L. David Mech spent on the isolated outpost of Isle Royale National Park, tracking and observing wolves and moose on foot and by airplane—and upending the common misperception of wolves as destructive killers of insatiable appetite.
List of contents
Contents
Foreword
Rolf O. Peterson
Map of Isle Royale
We Didn’t Know
The Chance of a Lifetime
Discovery: Summer 1958
Eye in the Sky: Winter 1959
Island Life: Summer 1959
Finding Patterns: Winter 1960
Island of Change: Summer 1960
Putting Together the Pieces: Winter 1961
The Wolves of Isle RoyaleThe View from Afar
Acknowledgments
Index
About the author
L. David Mech is a wildlife research biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and a professor in the department of Fisheries and Wildlife at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of The Wolves of Isle Royale and The Wolf: The Ecology and Behavior of an Endangered Species (available from Minnesota). Mech's long experience as a radio-tracker dates back to the developmental work done at Minnesota in the early 1960s.
