The Timber Wolf in Wisconsin: The Death And Life Of A Majestic Predator (A North Coast Book)

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In early 1958, in the far northern town of Cornucopia, Wisconsin’s “last” timber wolf used to be unintentionally run over by an automobile. The “humane” intention to end the animal’s suffering produced a grisly aftermath: the wolf survived the affect of the car, used to be bludgeoned with a tire iron twice but survived, and in the end had its throat slit with a restaurant knife.

This horrifying scene is without a doubt an apt (if appalling) symbol of the timber wolf’s early fate in Wisconsin. Feared, detested, hunted down for state-authorized bounties, the animal used to be systematically exterminated as an enemy of man and progress. Yet this bleak chapter in the history of conservation has a happier ending. Seventeen years later, in 1975, the timber wolf had officially reestablished itself and, as a secure species, is now flourishing under the care of Wisconsin’s Department of Natural Resources.

Few may also be more caring than the writer, a DNR educator in flora and fauna management. As an inquisitive teenager, Richard Thiel started his pursuit of the Wisconsin timber wolf’s story in the mid-1960s and has been at it ever since. The result is this arresting, intensely readable book, a story of fear, mistrust, and misunderstanding that ends, thankfully, as one of hope and appreciation.

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