The rise of wolf 8 : witnessing the triumph of Yellowstone's underdog (The alpha wolves of Yellowstone 1)
by McIntyre, Rick (Author)
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Summary
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 stru... Full description
- Prologue
- Wolf interpreter
- Wolves arrive in Yellowstone
- My first wolf sighting
- The little wolf and the big grizzly bear
- The Rose Creek and Crystal Creek pens
- The Rose Creek wolves get a new alpha male
- The arrival of the druids
- A new pack is formed
- Getting to know 8's family
- The battle of Slough Creek
- The games pups play
- Den troubles for the Rose Creek wolves
- Druid and Leopold pups
- Romeo and Juliet in Yellowstone
- When 21 met 42
- A new era for the druids
- The character of a wolf
- The Chief Joseph pack
- Family life with the druids
- The spring of 1999
- Life at the druid den
- Moving on to the rendezvous site
- The stubborn pup
- The druid yearling comes into his own
- My first Yellowstone winter
- December in Yellowstone
- The battle of Specimen Ridge
- Epilogue: Nemesis
- Afterword / by Douglas W. Smith.