Talk:Farley Mowat

Here's a quote from Wikipedia, which (to my regret) I cannot use:

• Having been trained as a biologist, Mowat took a Canadian government job as biologist in the Arctic. At the time, the government was concerned that the size of caribou herds was shrinking, and they suspected that wolves were eating the caribou, so the best way to protect the caribou would be to kill wolves. Flying into the heart of the wilderness on a small plane, Farley set up an observation camp near a local wolf population. After months of observation, Mowat concluded that, contrary to the ranchers' claims, the wolves mainly ate field mice and only ate old or sick caribou — by killing off the weakest of the caribou, wolves actually strengthened the caribou herd. The white men in the area were, according to Mowat, using the wolves as scapegoats for the decline of the animals, for which they themselves were responsible. Mowat set forth his findings in his 1963 book, Never Cry Wolf, a book which was widely read around the world, and which was one of the major reasons why the Soviet Union banned the killing of wolves. [1]

Anyway, I'm citing from a printed copy of his book, and I'll use other sources. --Ed Poor 07:50, 2 May 2007 (EDT)