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Douglas H. Chadwick is a field biologist and author.  His many book publications include The Grandest of Lives: Eye to Eye With Whales and his recent children's book, Growing Up Grizzly.  It's a wonderful true story about a bear family -- a big-hearted mother with three new cubs --  who adopted a much older cub. The illustrations are photos of those actual bears, who live on the wild coast in Alaska. 

The photo here shows Chadwick holding a male wolverine trapped for study in Glacier National Park. "I've volunteered on a research project to learn more about these little-known animals for five years. (No one is enthusiastic about burdening an animal with a radio collar, but wolverines, which weigh 30 pounds or less, cover territories as large as the range of an adult grizzly -- hundred of square miles -- in rugged mountain terrain. They're constantly on the move, up and over the peaks along the Great Divide, and try as we might, we can only rarely keep up for short distances. The collars opened new windows into the way their habitat requirements and social relationships.) WLT provided financial support that was essential to letting us continue the work. This led to breakthroughs in our knowledge about the species, which is seriously imperiled in the lower 48 states. There are fewer wolverines left south of Canada than either grizzlies or wolves. Yet the current administration has refused to offer these fierce and fearless members of the ferret, badger, and otter family much-needed protection under the Endangered Species Act."

You can read about his work with wolverines in The Wolverine Way.  He also spent a much quieter time on WLT's Greenwood Preserve and Wildlife Sanctuary.  That visit inspired Best Kind of Lonesome.

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