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Wolf Island : discovering the secrets of a mythic animal / L. David Mech with Greg Breining ; foreword by Rolf O. Peterson.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2020]Description: xi, 188 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781517908256
  • 1517908256
  • 9781517911317
  • 1517911311
Subject(s):
Contents:
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 Royale -- The view from afar.
Summary: "The world's leading wolf expert describes the first years of a major study that transformed our understanding of one of nature's most iconic creatures"-- Provided by publisher.Summary: In the late 1940s, a small pack of wolves crossed the ice of Lake Superior to the island wilderness of Isle Royale, creating a perfect laboratory for a long-term study of predators and prey. Mech, a graduate student at the time, began research and would eventually became an internationally renowned wolf expert. Here Mech recounts three summers and winters he 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. -- adapted from jacket
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The world's leading wolf expert describes the first years of a major study that transformed our understanding of one of nature's most iconic creatures

In the late 1940s, a small pack of wolves crossed the ice of Lake Superior to the island wilderness of Isle Royale, creating a perfect "laboratory" for a long-term study of predators and prey. As the wolves hunted and killed the island's moose, a young graduate student named Dave Mech began research that would unlock the mystery of one of nature's most revered (and reviled) animals--and eventually became an internationally renowned and respected wolf expert. This is the story of those early years.

Wolf Island recounts three extraordinary summers and winters 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. Mech sets the scene with one of his most thrilling encounters: witnessing an aerial view of a spectacular hunt, then venturing by snowshoe (against the pilot's warning) to photograph the pack of hungry wolves at their kill. Wolf Island owes as much to the spirit of adventure as to the impetus of scientific curiosity. Written with science and outdoor writer Greg Breining, who recorded hours of interviews with Mech and had access to his journals and field notes from those years, the book captures the immediacy of scientific fieldwork in all its triumphs and frustrations. It takes us back to the beginning of a classic environmental study that continues today, spanning nearly sixty years--research and experiences that would transform one of the most despised creatures on Earth into an icon of wilderness and ecological health.

Includes index.

"The world's leading wolf expert describes the first years of a major study that transformed our understanding of one of nature's most iconic creatures"-- Provided by publisher.

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 Royale -- The view from afar.

In the late 1940s, a small pack of wolves crossed the ice of Lake Superior to the island wilderness of Isle Royale, creating a perfect laboratory for a long-term study of predators and prey. Mech, a graduate student at the time, began research and would eventually became an internationally renowned wolf expert. Here Mech recounts three summers and winters he 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. -- adapted from jacket

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