Together they track down George, Angeline, and Uncle Albert in their dens where they shelter during summertime. He befriends an Eskimo man who helps him interpret their cries. The author decides to adopt some of the wolf’s behaviors and subsists on small rodents like them.

He develops a fond relationship with three wolves, George and Angeline, as well as Uncle Albert. The author continues to study the wolves’ behavior while he works on his caribou assignment. There, he observes that wolves prefer rabbits and small rodents over caribou meat. Mowat sets up camp next to Nueltin Lake, an Eskimo territory in Northeastern Canada. He notices before he even starts that his bosses expect him to find evidence that wolves killed off the caribou. The company first hires Mowat to figure out why the population of caribou in that region has sharply declined. While the book is comedic, it mainly covers the author’s time working for a wildlife service from 1948 to 1949. For example, when he received a radio for communication with headquarters, he modified it to reach farther than normal so that he could test its range however, this ended up being problematic since the signal reached as far as Peru and confused people there who didn’t speak English. He was young and inexperienced at first, but he learned from his mistakes. Mowat tells the story of how he became a forest ranger. The popularity helped make him one of the most well-respected environmentalists in mid-twentieth century Canada. Nevertheless, it sold more than 250 thousand copies worldwide. It’s one of the earliest books to advocate for active study and preservation of natural relationships, and was met with harsh criticism when published. In it, he tells the story of his first time in the wilderness and how he interacted with Ottawan forest officials.

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