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My Journey Through Forty Years of Wolf Recovery
by Diane K. Boyd
A debut memoir from one of the first women in the United States to study wild wolves in their natural habitat—a story of passion, resilience, and determination.
Called the Jane Goodall of wolves, world-renowned wildlife biologist Diane Boyd has spent four decades studying and advocating for wolves in the wilds of Montana near Glacier National Park. When she started in the 1970s, she was the only female biologist in the United States researching and radio-collaring wild wolves. With her two dogs for company, she faced the rigors of the Montana winter in an isolated cabin without running water or electricity.
Boyd fearlessly forded icy rivers, strapped on skis to navigate thick stands of lodgepole pine, and monitored packs from the air in a tiny bush plane that skimmed the treetops so she could count wolves and see what they were feeding on. She faced down grizzly bears, mountain lions, wolverines—and the occasional trapper—as she stalked her quarry: a handful of wolves that were making their way south from Canada into Montana. Resilient and resourceful, she devised her own trapping methods and negotiated with locals as wolf populations grew from the first natural colonizer to more than 3,000 wolves in the West today.
In this captivating book, Boyd takes the reader on a wild ride from the early days of wolf research to the present-day challenges of wolf management across the globe, highlighting her interactions with an apex predator that captured her heart and her undying admiration. Her writing resonates with her indomitable spirit as she explores the intricate balance of human and wolf coexistence.
"[A] swashbuckling memoir recounting episodes from a career spent studying and protecting wolves....There are moments of levity... However, it's the tales of adventure and derring-do that will keep readers turning pages...Nature lovers will be riveted." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"[A Woman Among Wolves] reads as much as an adventure tale as a scientific study....Matching wits with wolves, dealing with trappers, catching wolverines and cougars in wolf traps, and negotiating with the locals....Boyd's life with wolves is irresistible." —Booklist
"Every wolf's life is an adventure story, but what about the biologists who study them? Diane Boyd's memoir begins with a sedated wolf unexpectedly waking up in the back seat of her truck as she is rattling down a road in the Montana backcountry. Just another day in a forty-year career filled with amazing stories about wolves and the people who live alongside them. Highly recommended!" —Nate Blakeslee, author of American Wolf
"The story of a woman in a career dominated by men, tracking wolves as they return to a world dominated by humans—Diane Boyd's book is, in more ways than one, a gripping and vital portrait of wolf repopulation. Whether tracking the oft-forgotten wolves who wandered into Montana over a decade before Yellowstone reintroduction, or collaborating with scientists in the Italian Alps, Diane Boyd offers readers a front seat into this legendary American conservation story. It is impossible not to root for her, or for the wolves." —Erica Berry, author of Wolfish
"Diane's spirited story closely intertwines with that of the wolves she studies. A captivating and informative must-read." —Paul C. Paquet, biologist and editor, A New Era for Wolves and People
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Diane K. Boyd holds a PhD in Wildlife Biology from the University of Montana. She divides her time between her home in Kalispell, Montana, and her beloved cabin in the North Fork. She is the author of numerous scientific papers on wolves.
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