Alaska's Wolf Man
Title | Alaska's Wolf Man PDF eBook |
Author | Jim Rearden |
Publisher | Graphic Arts Books |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 2014-04-04 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0882409352 |
Between 1915 and 1955 adventure-seeking Frank Glaser, a latter-day Far North Mountain Man, trekked across wilderness Alaska on foot, by wolf-dog team, and eventually, by airplane. In his career he was a market hunter, trapper, roadhouse owner, professional dog team musher, and federal predator agent. A naturalist at heart, he learned from personal observation the life secrets of moose, caribou, foxes, wolverines, mountain sheep, grizzly bears, and wolves—especially wolves.
Romeo
Title | Romeo PDF eBook |
Author | John Hyde |
Publisher | Bunker Hill Publishing Company |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012-07-16 |
Genre | Wolves |
ISBN | 9781593731069 |
An illustrated true account of an urban legend: Orphaned and alone Romeo has made the Mendenhal Glacier outside Juneau his territory for the past decade subsisting on a diet of small mammals and fish. Unafraid of tourists and locals and eager to play with their dogs, he has taught thousands of people that wolves are playful and not vicious killers. This is John Hyde's up close and personal photographic record of a singular wolf.
A Wolf Called Romeo
Title | A Wolf Called Romeo PDF eBook |
Author | Nick Jans |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 291 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0547858191 |
A Wolf Called Romeo is the remarkable story of a wolf who returned again and again to interact with the people and dogs of Juneau, living on the edges of their community, engaging in an improbable, awe-inspiring interspecies dance and bringing the wild into sharp focus. At first the people of Juneau were guarded, torn between shoot first, ask questions later instincts and curiosity. But as Romeo began to tag along with cross-country skiers on their daily jaunts, play fetch with local dogs, or simply lie near Nick and nap under the sun, they came to accept Romeo, and he them. For Nick it was about trying to understand Romeo, then it was about winning his trust, and ultimately it was about watching over him, for as long as he or anyone could.
Julie of the Wolves (Summer Reading Edition)
Title | Julie of the Wolves (Summer Reading Edition) PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Craighead George |
Publisher | HarperTrophy |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 2004-06-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780060739447 |
While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack.
The Wolves of Alaska
Title | The Wolves of Alaska PDF eBook |
Author | Jim Rearden |
Publisher | Graphic Arts Books |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 2014-04-04 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0882409336 |
Jim Rearden is Alaska's most popular outdoors journalist. He holds two degrees in wildlife management and was Professor of Wildlife Management at the University of Alaska Fairbanks 1950-54. As a member of the Alaska Board of Game 75-82 he helped develop the Tanana Flats wolf control program. He details with historical accuracy the controversy that erupted when the 1975 program was announced. Counterpointing the modern controversy, Rearden includes exciting segments of his best-selling Alaska's Wolf Man, the story of Frank Glaser, Alaska's full-time government wolf hunter who hunted wolves in the Territory of Alaska 1915-1955. Alaska’s wolves are the main characters in this historically and biologically accurate recounting. Included are vivid anecdotes about wolves with descriptions of their behavior and way of life, examples of their intelligence, and expressions of appreciation for their charm and beauty, as well as an honest look at their savage efficiency as predators and relationship to urban and rural Alaskans.
Among Wolves
Title | Among Wolves PDF eBook |
Author | Marybeth Holleman |
Publisher | University of Alaska Press |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 2013-10-15 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1602232199 |
Alaska’s wolves lost their fiercest advocate, Gordon Haber, when his research plane crashed in Denali National Park in 2009. Passionate, tenacious, and occasionally brash, Haber, a former hockey player and park ranger, devoted his life to Denali’s wolves. He weathered brutal temperatures in the wild to document the wolves and provided exceptional insights into wolf behavior. Haber’s writings and photographs reveal an astonishing degree of cooperation between wolf family members as they hunt, raise pups, and play, social behaviors and traditions previously unknown. With the wolves at risk of being destroyed by hunting and trapping, his studies advocated for a balanced approach to wolf management. His fieldwork registered as one of the longest studies in wildlife science and had a lasting impact on wolf policies. Haber’s field notes, his extensive journals, and stories from friends all come together in Among Wolves to reveal much about both the wolves he studied and the researcher himself. Wolves continue to fascinate and polarize people, and Haber’s work continues to resonate.
The Red Snow
Title | The Red Snow PDF eBook |
Author | James Greiner |
Publisher | St. Martin's Griffin |
Pages | 247 |
Release | 2016-02-09 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1250112931 |
In The Red Snow, his second work, Greiner turns his keen eye to Alaska's vast wilderness and its most mysterious creature: the gray wolf. Basing his story on careful research and personal observation, Greiner recounts the lives of the Tanana River Valley wolf pack and the tough, lonely hunter, Jake, who inhabits their valley. In splendid detail, he describes the birth of pups, the victory of the hunt, and the habits of animals who share the wolves' valley. Yet in describing the beauty, he never forgets the harshness of the Arctic wilderness; Greiner makes the ugly realities of the fight for survival intensely clear.