Cat Urbigkit's new book about wolves

Pinedale sheep rancher, photographer and children’s writer Cat Urbigkit has written a new book. Yellowstone Wolves--A Chronicle of the Animal, the People, and the Politics will be released published in September by the McDonald & Woodward Publishing Company of Granville, Ohio.

Here’s what the publisher says about the book:

For the first time, the history of Wyoming's native wolf is told in an intensively researched, fully footnoted chronicle by Pinedale, Wyoming's award-winning author Cat Urbigkit. Beginning with the archeological evidence of wolves in western Wyoming, through the wolf control era when most, but not all, wolves were eradicated, the book continues through the release of Canadian wolves into Yellowstone National Park and the lasting effects of this controversial action. Urbigkit is uniquely qualified to compile this intensely personal perspective, as she was one of the litigants who sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to prevent the reintroduction of Canadian wolves into the northern Rockies.

Urbigkit's book provides four frames of context: historic, scientific, legal, and immensely personal. The book details what was known about the native wolf and how it differed from other wolf populations. It explains the political and legal battles over the proposal to reintroduce non-native wolves to the region. While the debate raged, some of its participants largely ignored the fact the wolves still existed in the region and introducing Canadian wolves would be a violation of the Endangered Species Act. Rather than a triumph for conservation, the author viewed the wolf reintroduction program as a tragedy. Rather than a victory for wildlife, it was an action causing the extinction of a truly distinct animal, Wyoming's native wolf. She fought the original wolf reintroduction proposal not out of hatred for wolves, but out of concern for the possible extinction of Wyoming's native wolf.

FMI: www.mwpubco.com/YellowstoneWolves.htm