Shadow Mountain: A Memoir of Wolves, a Woman, and the Wild
by By Askins, Renee
Category: Nature , Animals , Mammals

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. In this intimate account,   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 Mountain is the awe-inspiring story of her mission and her impassioned   meditation on our connection to the wild.