Wolf Wars

The gray wolf-the most significant missing piece of the Yellowstone ecosystem-is back. Following an eco-political battle of epic proportions, the wolf has been returned to Yellowstone by the same federal agencies that methodically exterminated it more than sixty years ago. In Wolf Wars, Hank Fischer unfolds the intriguing story of how the Yellowstone wolf was hated into extinction, how a society came to appreciate the importance of predators, how the master predator's return will send a welcome "ripple effect: through Yellowstone's flora and fauna, and how conservationists finally prevailed in a decade-long political struggle with Congress, the courts, and the powerful livestock industry.