For twenty years, Ian McAllister has explored the rugged north coast of
British Columbia, known as the Great Bear Rainforest, one of the last
places on the planet where wolves live in an undisturbed way. This book
describes McAllister's experiences over that period following two packs
of wolves, one that dominates the extreme outer coastal islands, and
another that lives farther inland in the heart of the temperate
rainforest.
McAllister, along with Chris Darimont and Paul C. Paquet, were the first
to document the unique behavior of these animals in The Last Wild
Wolves. In Following the Last Wild Wolves McAllister brings readers
up to date describing what has happened to the wolves and their
environment since the book first appeared. He chronicles their unique
behavior as they fish for salmon in the fall, target seals hauled out on
rocks in winter, and give birth to their young in spring. He also
describes the work of scientists with the Raincoast Conservation Society
who have been studying the wolves and explains how their science
corroborates his own observations and the traditional knowledge of the
area's Native people. Most interestingly, the results of these studies
reveal a genetically distinct population of wolves independent of and
separate from all other known wolf populations on the planet.
