The Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone's Underdog (The Alpha Wolves of Yellowstone, 1)

An Amazon.com Best Science Book of 2019! Runnerup — 2020 Reading the West Book Awards! Named a Notable Book by the 2019xa0Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Awards! “[McIntyre's] greatest strength is the quiet respect and wonder with which he regards his subjects, a quality clearly informed by decades of careful watching." —Publishers Weekly “Rick's book [ The Rise of Wolf 8 ] is a goldmine for information on all aspects of wolf behavior and clearly shows they are clever, smart, and emotional beings."— Psychology Today “The main attraction of this book, though, is the storytelling about individual wolves, including the powerful origin story of one of Yellowstone’s greatest and most famous wolves." — Washington Post “Yellowstone’s resident wolf guru Rick McIntyre has been many things to many people: an expert tracker for the park’s biologists, an indefatigable roadside interpreter for visitors, and an invaluable consultant to countless chronicles of the park’s wolves—including my own. But he is first and foremost a storyteller whose encyclopedic knowledge of Yellowstone’s wolf reintroduction project—now in its 25th year—is unparalleled.” —Nate Blakeslee , New York Times bestselling author of American Wolf An Amazon.com Best Science Book of 2019! Runnerup — 2020 Reading the West Book Awards! Named a Notable Book by the 2019xa0Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Awards! “[McIntyre's] greatest strength is the quiet respect and wonder with which he regards his subjects, a quality clearly informed by decades of careful watching." —Publishers Weekly “Rick's book [ The Rise of Wolf 8 ] is a goldmine for information on all aspects of wolf behavior and clearly shows they are clever, smart, and emotional beings."— Psychology Today “The main attraction of this book, though, is the storytelling about individual wolves, including the powerful origin story of one of Yellowstone’s greatest and most famous wolves." — Washington Post “Yellowstone’s resident wolf guru Rick McIntyre has been many things to many people: an expert tracker for the park’s biologists, an indefatigable roadside interpreter for visitors, and an invaluable consultant to countless chronicles of the park’s wolves—including my own. But he is first and foremost a storyteller whose encyclopedic knowledge of Yellowstone’s wolf reintroduction project—now in its 25th year—is unparalleled.” —Nate Blakeslee , New York Times bestselling author of American Wolf RICK MCINTYRE has spent more than fifty years watching wolves in America’s national parks, twenty-five of those years in Yellowstone, where he has accumulated over 100,000 wolf sightings and educated the public about the park’s most famous wolves. He has spoken about the Yellowstone wolves with 60 Minutes , NPR, and CBC, and he is profiled extensively in Nate Blakeslee’s American Wolf and in international publications. He lives in Silver Gate, Montana. ROBERT REDFORD —actor, director, and producer—has been a passionate art and environmental activist since the early 1970s. He has been an advocate for climate change awareness, clean energy, and habitat protection for over forty years. Read more