Whereas the Gray Wolves now reintroduced into their former ancestral habitat of Yellowstone National Park rely on the area’s population of North American Elk (Cervus canadensis) to provide their primary source of food, in Isle Royale National Park, it’s Moose (Alces alces) that sustain the pack. However dietary differences aside, both wolf populations have and continue to face challenges to their existence – both natural and human directed.
Prof. John A. Vucetich has been studying the Isle Royal wolves – as well as the Moose and other creatures that inhabit the area’s ecosystem – for more than twenty-five years. In that time he has been witness to both triumph and tragedy, to extraordinary actions attempted for the animals’ well-being as well as the controversy that most anything done that results in increased wolf numbers invariably elicits in the U.S.
Now, in his new book Restoring the Balance; What Wolves Tell Us about Our Relationship with Nature, Prof. Vucetich shares with a wide reading public examples of what he has witnessed in his more than a quarter century of work studying these remarkable animals as well as what he has learned about the relationship humans and wolves have with one another, the wider relationships both have with the larger ecosystems in which they live, and his ideas gleaned from all this about how we all might re-think how we live on this planet, interact with, and understand the myriad other creatures with whom we share it.
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