The return of the wolf to Yellowstone

the long version

Early in this century, U.S. government agents trapped, poisoned, or shot every wolf they could track down in and around Yellowstone National Park. For thousands of years the wolf had been the preeminent predator of the vast wildlands of Greater Yellowstone, but by 1926 not one was left alive. In January of 1995, after a generation of struggle between the wolf's friends and foes, the wolf was returned to Yellowstone. Thomas McNamee chronicles the drama of the. Reintroduction, the political machinations behind it, and the harrowing stories of the wolves themselves, including the coldblooded assassination of Wolf Number Ten, his mate Nine's lonely motherhood, and the undercover search for the killer. The wolf's return has brought far-reaching changes to Yellowstone, to the contending cultures of the modern West, and to the contending cultures of the modern West, and to the very meaning of conservation. In McNamee's telling, it. Is easy to see why this saga has stirred the imagination of a nation, for it is, indeed, the environmental story of the decade.