yellowstone national park

Discusses how the wolf, once returned to Yellowstone National Park, helped restore balance to the ecosystem by minimizing the predation of coyotes on smaller creatures, keeping the elk herd on the run, thereby helping more aspen and willow trees to grow, and influencing other previously misunderstood dynamics.

In lyrical prose and luminous paintings, readers tour the Yellowstone supervolcano and the animals who now take refuge there.

Shows the wolves in the natural habitat that was almost lost without them.

Explores the true story of O-Six, a an alpha female wolf that became celebrated in Yellowstone National Park and became important for the resurgence of the wolf population of the park, which in turn greatly turned around the decline of Yellowstone's ecosystem.

"In 1995-96 twenty-three grey wolves were released in Yellowstone National Park where, due to over-hunting, there had been no wolves at all for almost seventy years. This reintroduction project was an overwhelming success. Over twenty years later we can still see the changes the grey wolves brought to Yellowstone National Park. Now that the elk graze higher ground, seedlings are growing tall, rivers are getting deeper as beavers return, and a lively pond ecosystem is developing. This true story offers an important lesson about the difference one creature can make in creating a healthy, thriving world"--Amazon.com.

Uses the Yellowstone National Park fires of 1988, and the controversial issue of fire-suppression policy, as the focus of a five-week study of the ecological and chemical nature of fire.