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Shadow Mountain A Memoir of Wolves, a Woman, and the Wild

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ISBN-10: 0385482264

ISBN-13: 9780385482264

Edition: N/A

Authors: Renee Askins

List price: $17.95
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After forming an intense bond with Natasha, a wolf cub she raised as part of her undergraduate research, Renée Askins was inspired to found the Wolf Fund. As head of this grassroots organization, she made it her goal to restore wolves to Yellowstone National Park, where they had been eradicated by man over seventy years before. Here, Askins recounts her courageous fifteen-year campaign, wrangling along the way with Western ranchers and their political allies in Washington, enduring death threats, and surviving the anguish of illegal wolf slayings to ensure that her dream of restoring Yellowstone’s ecological balance would one day be realized. Told in powerful, first-person narrative, Shadow…    
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Book details

List price: $17.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/6/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.18" wide x 7.95" long x 0.73" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

REN� E ASKINS founded the Wolf Fund in 1986 for the sole purpose of reintroducing wolves into Yellowstone National Park. She has been profiled in "Time," "Harper’ s Bazaar," "Audubon," the "New York Times," "People," and "Parade" and her writing has been featured in "Harper's Magazin"e and in the anthology "Intimate Nature: The Bond Between Women and Animals," She has traveled and lectured extensively on the topic of wildness in our culture. She lives in Wilson, Wyoming, with her husband, her daughter, four dogs, and three parakeets."From the Hardcover edition."