Lookin’ for the Wolf – Image of the Month, Feb 2010.
Sunday, January 31st, 2010
Snowshoeing through the forest in search of the wolf, Wrangell - St. Elias National Park, Alaska.
Hey Folks,
A week or 2 through the winter boreal forest hoping to find wolves is always a treat – whether the wolves show themselves or not. So far, no luck – they remain the mystery.
But what a treat it is to hear their howls, or find their soft tracks in the snow, and to know they too sift through the boreal forest. To enter the winter boreal forest is to enter the realm of the wolf – the home of Canis lupus. Few creatures can quite so vividly engage our mind and spirit like the wolf – so rarely even seen, yet so enmeshed in our cultural histories and stories.
I’ve walked I don’t know how many miles and waited hours, days, hoping for a glimpse, (more…)
