Shadow Mountain: A Memoir of Wolves, a Woman, and the Wild
by Renée Askins
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After forming an intense bond with Natasha, a wolf cub she raised as part of her undergraduate research, Renée Askins was inspired to found the Wolf Fund. As head of this grassroots organization, she made it her goal to restore wolves to Yellowstone National Park, where they had been eradicated by man over seventy years before. In this intimate account, Askins recounts her courageous fifteen-year campaign, wrangling along the way with Western ranchers and their political allies in show more Washington, enduring death threats, and surviving the anguish of illegal wolf slayings to ensure that her dream of restoring Yellowstone's ecological balance would one day be realized. Told in powerful, first-person narrative, Shadow Mountain is the awe-inspiring story of her mission and her impassioned meditation on our connection to the wild. show lessTags
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- Original publication date
- 2002
- People/Characters
- Renée Askins
- Epigraph
- Whatever you do will be insignificant and it is very important that you do it. - Mohandas Gandhi
On this cold night
winter's last rally
rakes across the fledgling breast
of spring like claws. The last white bear
turns, hungering,
northward.
We put on layers of sweaters again
and light a circle of lam... (show all)ps
deep in the heart of the house. But
we are restless, keep listening.
You are the first to get up.
You pace a few silent steps
then go. Upstairs I find you
perched at the window,
an early stork
staring from the slender chimney
of your bones down
at icy slivers of teeth
slicing into tender garden growth.
Without thinking why
we gather the afghans
and carefully fold our long limbs
down into them.
With a soft ritual clicking of bills,
necks twining, wings rising,
we begin
the ancient migration
back to the place
of our birth.
Marcia Casey, "Storks - Dedication
- For Siena Aurora Askins Rush
and
For Natasha
In all her mystery and incarnations - First words
- During the years of writing Shadow Mountain people would ask me, "What is your book about?" (from the Prologue)
My first memories are of meadows. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)When the mother of the Yellowstone wolves dies, where she dies, and how, I hope we will never know; it should be that way. The wild's grace and mercy.
- Blurbers
- Williams, Terry Tempest; Mech, L. David; Babbitt, Bruce
- Original language
- English
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