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Swinburne, Stephen R.

Once a Wolf: How Wildlife Biologists Fought to Bring Back the Gray Wolf

48 pp. | Houghton | March, 1999 | Trade ISBN 0-395-89827-7 $$16.00

(2) 4-6 Photographs by Jim Brandenburg. Brandenburg's unparalleled wildlife photographs illustrate this cogently organized and skillfully designed account of the reintroduction of gray wolves to Yellowstone National Park. "The number-one goal of the Yellowstone Wolf Project is to remove the gray wolf from the endangered species list," and while the book is in full agreement with this intent, the approach is bracingly journalistic, not sentimental. Bib., ind.

Reviewer: Roger Sutton | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 1999