Wolves of the Rocky Mountains from Jasper to Yellowstone

by Dick Dekker, Dick Dekker (Designed by), Dick Dekker (Editor)

Overview

It is the story of wolves in the Canadian wilderness, of their survival during the lean years prior to the 1970's and of their ultimate triumph as the source population for the dramatic reintroductions to Yellowstone.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780888394163
Publisher:	Hancock House Publishers
Publication date:	03/01/1997
Edition description:	Enlarged and Updated
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	0.22(w) x 0.33(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

Theodorus Johannes (Dick) Dekker was born in Rotterdam on 19 October 1933. Just after the outbreak of the Second World War and before Rotterdam was bombed, he moved to Haarlem, where he received his secondary education at Het Triniteitslyceum. In 1950 he began a career in graphic design and publish-ing at Uitgeverij De Spaarnestad. Nature study had become a lifelong passion. At 17, he sold his first illustrated articles to youth magazines and eventually to a wide range of print media. His list of publications in the Dutch language, which continues to grow, now includes 222 titles and seven books. In 1959 he emi-grated to Canada in search of unspoiled wilderness. After almost having lost his life in a canoe accident in Yukon, he returned to Haarlem in 1961, resuming his nature writing until 1964, when he again left for Canada, accompanied by his wife Irma. In Edmonton, Alberta, he established himself as a free-lance graphic designer until 1982. Since then he has devoted himself full-time to wildlife writing and field research, which includes long-range mammal surveys in Jasper National Park, and ongoing studies of the avian inventory and habitat succession at Beaverhills Lake, a Ramsar wetland and Hemispheric Shorebird Reserve. He has given talks about wolves and other wildlife at a number of national and international conferences and nature group meetings. His growing list of pub-lications in the english language now sits at 180 titles, including 27 papers in refereed journal

Table of Contents

Foreword - From Jasper to Yellowstone	6
Author's Introduction - View From The Howling Hill	8
Part I - Watcher in the Wilderness	15
Chapter 1 - Cry of the Wild	16
Chapter 2 - Fear of Fangs	23
Chapter 3 - Rocky Mountain Rendezvous	34
Chapter 4 - Innocent Killers	45
Chapter 5 - Comrades and Competitors	57
Chapter 6 - The Not-So Natural History of Jasper	67
Part II - From Varmint to Favorite	81
Chapter 7 - Fleeting Glimpse	82
Chapter 8 - Of Wolves and Humans	88
Chapter 9 - A Price on his Head	96
Chapter 10 - If a Raven Falls	117
Chapter 11- Let it Be	122
Chapter 12 - The Silence is Broken	126
Part III - Predators, Prey and People	137
Chapter 13 - The Management Dilemma	138
Chapter 14 - Raiders in the Night	143
Chapter 15 - A Question of Ghosts	149
Chapter 16 - To Kill and Let Live	158
Chapter 17 - Stand-Off at the Chasm	168
Chapter 18 - In the Final Analysis	177
Chapter 19 - Jasper Today and Tomorrow	184
Chapter 20 - Tales of a Wolf Watcher	194
References	202
Index	205