Volume 42, Number 19 · November 30, 1995
Man's Next-Best Friend
By Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
The Company of Wolves
by Peter Steinhart
Knopf, 374 pp., $25.00
The Wolf Almanac
by Robert H. Busch
Lyons & Burford, 226 pp., $24.00
Barring some competition from whales, wolves are probably America's most popular wild animal. Wolves are also contenders for America's most unpopular wild animal, with perhaps some competition from coyotes. Their supporters tend to be environmentalists, and their detractors tend to be ranchers and deer and caribou hunters who see wolves as competitors and want them eliminated from the earth. This reviewer remembers rabid anti-wolf lobbyists in the late 1960s who compared wolves to the Viet Cong, and suggested that anyone who wanted to save them was a Communist.
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