My Life With Wolves

Americas beloved wolf historian and longtime Yellowstone park ranger shares his long-awaited biographya story filled with true grit, laughter, and love for Americas National Parks.There is literally no one else who could tell these stories. NBCThe chief historian of the most famous wolf population in the world. Washington PostLike Darwin, McIntyre is an inclusionist and is thus able to enter the hearts and minds of wolves. Mountain JournalRick McIntyre is the ultimate guru of wolf behavior. Jane GoodallIn this entertaining memoir, Rick McIntyre recounts his life spent amongst wild nature while working in the National Parks Service as a park ranger and shares the wisdom he has gained from spending nearly every day of his adult life in the presence of wolves.McIntyre has calculated whether to outpace a grizzly or stand and face it. He has narrowly missed a charge by a moose. He has watched alpha wolves come up against each other in battles for territoryonly to be surprised by their benevolent actions.Throughout his career, McIntyre has used his experience in the great outdoors and through watching apex predators in the sights of his telescope to de-escalate fights between humanseven once helping to apprehend an armed man inside Yellowstone National Park by simply inviting him to his wolf talk later that evening.This book chronicles Ricks journey, explains his values, and brings readers up to date on the latest dramas of the Junction Butte pack in Yellowstone. Along the way, this tale is threaded through with Ricks calm assertiveness in the face of conflict, his wise dealings with humans and animals alike, and his gentle sense of humorlike the time a woman excitedly thought she saw a grizzly bear through his telescope and Rick had to break it to her that what she saw was really an Arctic ground squirrel.