Wolves at our door....
six years and became so trusted that the wolf pack would let them lay down among them and lick their faces. And we're talking some really big animals here..with really big teeth.
The film stresses the social and family nature of the wolf pack with some amazing examples of the complicated hierarchy and intelligence of the wolves. The Duchers are working to reintroduce wolves back into selected wild areas of the West; working with biologists and ranchers. They are having some success and will tell you that the wolves have actually helped the bio region around Yellowstone by culling sick, weak and old elk and deer. The wolves have also controlled the coyote population that was preying on young cows. For those instances where a wolf does take a domestic animal a fund has been established to compensate the ranchers. Sounds like it might work, I hope so. And the Duchers would like you to know that there has never been a documented case of a wolf attacking a human in North America.
Here's our own Wolf Man, Sibley Center director Burr Williams, with the Duchers. I gotta' love my new Nikon! The picture above was taken from about 80 feet away from a projection screen!
 | The Sibley Nature Center auditorium was overflowing for a talk by Emmy Award winners Jim and Jamie Ducher about their documentary film "Wolves at our Door". Their film is the highest rated documentary ever to appear on the Discovery Channel. I can see why. The story is fascinating and the cinematography is stunning. The Duchers lived with a pack of wolves in the Sawtooth Mountains of Idaho for |
The film stresses the social and family nature of the wolf pack with some amazing examples of the complicated hierarchy and intelligence of the wolves. The Duchers are working to reintroduce wolves back into selected wild areas of the West; working with biologists and ranchers. They are having some success and will tell you that the wolves have actually helped the bio region around Yellowstone by culling sick, weak and old elk and deer. The wolves have also controlled the coyote population that was preying on young cows. For those instances where a wolf does take a domestic animal a fund has been established to compensate the ranchers. Sounds like it might work, I hope so. And the Duchers would like you to know that there has never been a documented case of a wolf attacking a human in North America.
Here's our own Wolf Man, Sibley Center director Burr Williams, with the Duchers. I gotta' love my new Nikon! The picture above was taken from about 80 feet away from a projection screen!
