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A Woman Among Wolves

My Journey Through Forty Years of Wolf Recovery

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"A gripping and vital portrait of wolf repopulation. It is impossible not to root for Diane, or for the wolves."—ERICA BERRY, AUTHOR OF WOLFISH
"This is a book about a courageous woman. Often alone in wild country, she endures hardships and faces danger in many forms .... It is a book I highly recommend: informative, fascinating, and beautifully written."—DR. JANE GOODALL
A debut memoir from one of the first women biologists in the United States to study wild wolves in their natural habitat—a story of passion, resilience, and determination.

Called the Jane Goodall of wolves, world-renowned wildlife biologist Diane Boyd has spent four decades studying and advocating for wolves in the wilds of Montana near Glacier National Park. When she started in the 1970s, she was the only female biologist in the United States researching and radio-collaring wild wolves. With her two dogs for company, she faced the rigors of the Montana winter in an isolated cabin without running water or electricity.
Boyd fearlessly forded icy rivers, strapped on skis to navigate thick stands of lodgepole pine, and monitored packs from the air in a tiny bush plane that skimmed the treetops so she could count wolves and see what they were feeding on. She faced down grizzly bears, mountain lions, wolverines—and the occasional trapper—as she stalked her quarry: a handful of wolves that were making their way south from Canada into Montana. Resilient and resourceful, she devised her own trapping methods and negotiated with locals as wolf populations grew from the first natural colonizer to more than 3,000 wolves in the West today.
In this captivating book, Boyd takes the reader on a wild ride from the early days of wolf research to the present-day challenges of wolf management across the globe, highlighting her interactions with an apex predator that captured her heart and her undying admiration. Her writing resonates with her indomitable spirit as she explores the intricate balance of human and wolf coexistence.
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    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from July 15, 2024
      Wildlife biologist Boyd debuts with a swashbuckling memoir recounting episodes from a career spent studying and protecting wolves. She recalls falling in love with the animals after working with them at a wildlife sanctuary while attending college in Minnesota in the 1970s. For several decades after graduation, Boyd worked with the University of Montana’s Wolf Ecology Project to restore the wolf population in Glacier National Park, which involved trapping the predators, outfitting them with radio collars, and tracking the packs by searching for collar signals while flying over the park. There are moments of levity, as when she describes trying to subdue three rambunctious pups who wriggled free of their restraints in the backseat of her truck. However, it’s the tales of adventure and derring-do that will keep readers turning pages, such as when she details scrambling up a tree to free a black bear cub, whose leg was clamped in a trap that had gotten stuck in the branches, before the cub’s mother returned. Elsewhere, Boyd describes a pulse-pounding race against time to save a wolf hobbled by a hunter’s trap, a rescue mission that involved a daring attempt to land a ski-plane in the middle of a hunting camp and, when that failed, a swift pursuit of the injured creature by snowmobile. Nature lovers will be riveted. Photos.

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