Restoring the Balance: What Wolves Tell Us about Our Relationship with Nature Vucetich John A.
Restoring the Balance: What Wolves Tell Us about Our Relationship with Nature Vucetich John A. For more than a quarter century, celebrated biologist John Vucetich has studied the wolves, and the…
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Restoring the Balance: What Wolves Tell Us about Our Relationship with Nature Vucetich John A.
For more than a quarter century, celebrated biologist John Vucetich has studied the wolves, and the moose that sustain them, of the boreal forest of Isle Royale National Park, an island in the northwest corner of Lake Superior. In Restoring the Balance, Vucetich combines environmental philosophy with field notes chronicling his day-to-day experience as a scientist. During this time, he has witnessed both the near extinction of the local wolf population, driven largely by climate change, and the intensely debated relocation of other wolves to the island in an effort to stabilize and maintain Isle Royale's ecosystem health.
Examining the fate of wolves in the wild, he shares lessons from these wolves and explains their impact on humanity's fundamental responsibilities to the natural world.Vucetich's engaging narrative and unique, clear-eyed perspective provide an