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    Among Wolves: Gordon Haber's Insights into Alaska's Most Misunderstood Animal

    Among Wolves: Gordon Haber's Insights into Alaska's Most Misunderstood Animal

    by Marybeth Holleman, Gordon Haber

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      ISBN-13: 9781602232198
    • Publisher: University of Alaska Press
    • Publication date: 10/15/2013
    • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
    • Format: eBook
    • Pages: 300
    • File size: 41 MB
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    Gordon Haber (1942–2009) studied wolves in Denali National Park and interior Alaska for forty-three years. Marybeth Holleman is author of The Heart of the Sound and coeditor of Crosscurrents North. She has lived in Alaska’s Chugach Mountains for twenty-five years. 

    Table of Contents

    Introduction

    Scientist and Advocate for Alaska’s Wolves

          The First Two Years of Life of an Alaska Wolf

    1 My Good Fortune: Working among Alaska’s Wolves

          Snapshot: Savage River Wolves – Gary Baker

          Snapshot: Flying Gordon – Troy Dunn

    2 The Heart of Wolf Society: Wolf Family Bonds

          Snapshot: First Snow – Johnny Johnson

          Snapshot: A True Field Scientist – Troy Dunn

    3 A New Biological Year: Attending Young Pups

          Snapshot: Teklanika Den – Karen Deatherage

    4 It Takes a Family: Raising Pups Cooperatively

          Snapshot: Son – Troy Dunn

    5 Going with the Flow: The Daily Lives of Wolves

          Snapshot: Just One More Turn – Troy Dunn

    6 Why Wolves Howl: The Many Social Values

          Snapshot: A Sign of Intelligence – Johnny Johnson

          Snapshot: Passing By – Troy Dunn

    7 Hunting Traditions: Wolves, Their Prey, and Scavenging

          Snapshot: Pups at a Sheep Kill – Priscilla Feral

    8 Toklat’s Switch to Hares: Survivors Seize an Opportunity

          Snapshot: Toklat’s Hare Hunting – Troy Dunn

    9 Companions and Competitors: Ravens, Hears, and Other Wildlife

          Snapshot: Wolves with Bears – Troy Dunn

    10 Natural Fearlessness: Wolves and People in Denali National Park

          Snapshot: Dr. Gordon Haber – Jonathan B. Jarvis

          Snapshot: The Hamburger Drop – Johnny Johnson

    11 Park Wolves in Danger: The Denali Buffer Solution

          Journal Notes: State-Snared Wolves

          Snapshot: This Guy is Hard Core – Joel Bennett

          Snapshot: Mortality Call – Barbara Brease

    12 Science Gone Awry: Alaska’s Wolf-Killing Programs

          Journal Notes: Snowmachine Hunt

          Snapshot: Wolf Summit – Priscilla Feral

          Snapshot: Picking Pilots – Troy Dunn

    13 Endangered Species: The Problem with Delisting Northern Rockies Wolves

          Snapshot: Scientist as Advocate – Rick Steiner

    14 Toklat’s High Value: The Case for Unexploited Wolf Groups

          Snapshot: Last Phone Call – Barbara Brease

          Significant Findings of Gordon Haber’s Wolf Research

    Epilogue

    From Bad to Worse: An Update on Haber’s Wolves

    References

    Acknowledgements

    Index

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    Alaska’s wolves lost their fiercest advocate, Gordon Haber, when his research plane crashed in Denali National Park in 2009. Passionate, tenacious, and occasionally brash, Haber, a former hockey player and park ranger, devoted his life to Denali’s wolves.

    He weathered brutal temperatures in the wild to document the wolves and provided exceptional insights into wolf behavior. Haber’s writings and photographs reveal an astonishing degree of cooperation between wolf family members as they hunt, raise pups, and play, social behaviors and traditions previously unknown. With the wolves at risk of being destroyed by hunting and trapping, his studies advocated for a balanced approach to wolf management. His fieldwork registered as one of the longest studies in wildlife science and had a lasting impact on wolf policies.

    Haber’s field notes, his extensive journals, and stories from friends all come together in Among Wolves to reveal much about both the wolves he studied and the researcher himself. Wolves continue to fascinate and polarize people, and Haber’s work continues to resonate.

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