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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 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.… (más)
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
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 lamps 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
Dedicatoria
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
For Siena Aurora Askins Rush and For Natasha In all her mystery and incarnations
Primeras palabras
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
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.
Citas
Últimas palabras
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
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.
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 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.
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