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Grizzly bears, black bears, wolves, coyotes, cougars/ mountain lions,bobcats, wolverines, lynx, foxes, fishers and martens are the suite of carnivores that originally inhabited North America after the Pleistocene extinctions. This site invites research, commentary, point/counterpoint on that suite of native animals (predator and prey) that inhabited The Americas circa 1500-at the initial point of European exploration and subsequent colonization. Landscape ecology, journal accounts of explorers and frontiersmen, genetic evaluations of museum animals, peer reviewed 20th and 21st century research on various aspects of our "Wild America" as well as subjective commentary from expert and layman alike. All of the above being revealed and discussed with the underlying goal of one day seeing our Continent rewilded.....Where big enough swaths of open space exist with connective corridors to other large forest, meadow, mountain, valley, prairie, desert and chaparral wildlands.....Thereby enabling all of our historic fauna, including man, to live in a sustainable and healthy environment. - Blogger Rick

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Thursday, September 9, 2010

Our Friend Dave Hornoff who authors www.wolfwatcher.com reporting on Yellowstone Wolf Researcher Rick Mcintyre

Rick McIntyre

Rick has observed and collected data on Yellowstone wolves for over ten years

by Dave Hornoff 		Sept. 5, 2010

Rick McIntyre collects wolf activity data daily(over ten years without missing a day!) for the Yellowstone Wolf Project.


 A more gracious, and helpful person to talk to and watch wolves with you will never meet.

 I will never forget my first wolf watching  experience while on a Wild Side trip with Dr. Nathan Varley and noted wildlife biologist Linda Thurston.  We pulled into Little America and set up scopes as the Agate Pack was located along the tree line.  Setting up his scope next to me was Rick McIntyre and Nathan suggested I introduce myself.  I did and Rick proceeded to direct me to where the wolves were located and I saw my first wolf, High Sides, a beautiful gray.  Rick narrated what I was watching , supplying the background and history of the pack.  It made an unforgettable experience even that much better, one I will never forget.

 This past June while in the Park I was watching the Lamar Canyon Pack in Slough Creek with several other wolf watchers, including Laurie Lyman of Yellowstone Reports.  Alongside was Rick McIntyre.

  A lot of people had gathered and Rick gave a demonstration of how he locates collared wolves by using telemetry, and at one point displayed his dry sense of humor as he walked up to a dad in a group stating he had a signal, and it was coming from him.  Rick asked, to the amusement of the group, "Have you ever been abducted by aliens?"  Needless to say this added so much to their experience, and the rest of us got a kick out of it as well.  This is what Rick does.

  Rick McIntyre is a great  ambassador for the Yellowstone wolves, as well as an important piece of the Yellowstone Wolf Project.  But more than that, to the people looking to see wolves in the wild, he is a friend.  Thanks Rick for all you do!
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