Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Askins, Renee |
| Publisher: | Anchor |
| Date: | 1/6/2004 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
After forming an intense bond with Natasha, a wolf cub she raised as part of herundergraduate research, Renée Askins was inspired to found the Wolf Fund. As headof this grassroots organization, she made it her goal to restore wolves to YellowstoneNational Park, where they had been eradicated by man over seventy years before. In this intimate account,Askins recounts her courageous fifteen-year campaign, wrangling along the way withWestern ranchers and their political allies in Washington, enduring death threats,and surviving the anguish of illegal wolf slayings to ensure that her dream of restoringYellowstone’s ecological balance would one day be realized. Told in powerful, first-personnarrative, Shadow Mountain is the awe-inspiring story of her mission and her impassionedmeditation on our connection to the wild.
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