Bruce Hampton

“In that respect, the fate of wolves in inextricably woven with that of humanity.”

— Bruce Hampton

“As healthy and viable populations of wild animals, wolves were gone from most of eastern North America long before the death of…

— Bruce Hampton

“Dear Friend-- My partner, Will Geary, got to putting on airs and I shot him and he is dead. The potatoes is…

— Bruce Hampton

“Even as they sought their destruction, many considered them [wolves] "possessed of near human intelligence," according Stanley Young, one so refined and…

— Bruce Hampton

“Pimlott foresaw a time when wolves would be reintroduced to national parks in both Canada and the United States, and people would…

— Bruce Hampton

“Wolves, declared the document, like all other wildlife "have a right to exist in a wild state," one that "derives from the…

— Bruce Hampton

“As top predators, both humans and wolves evolved the most successful means to capitalization on the continent's wealth of prey. In short,…

— Bruce Hampton

“Wolves, like all living things, had been created by God with "a purpose," declared Shoemaker, and thus have "an inherent right to…

— Bruce Hampton

“..."we have been fed for so many generations on tales of the Wolf's ferocity, treachery, rapacity, cowardice, and strength" that most people…

— Bruce Hampton

“Writing to A. Brazier Howell, Murie admitted that he had grown "very fond of native mammals, amounting almost to a passion," and…

— Bruce Hampton

“But Olson had learned that being a wolf advocate wasn't easy, for "the politics of wolf preservation and the science of studying…

— Bruce Hampton

“After enduring humankind's unrelenting persecution, the wolf had become something nature had never intended, "the curse of a generation of ranchers and…

— Bruce Hampton

“In the words of Yellowstone Park's wolf biologist Michael Phillips, wolf conservation has become "a dramatic expression of the goodness of the…

— Bruce Hampton

“Deer needed predators to trim their numbers and keep them from destroying their environment, he said. To do away with predators such…

— Bruce Hampton

“John Stanwell-Fletcher published an article in Natural History magazine, declaring that after spending three years in the Canadian wilderness, he believed more…

— Bruce Hampton

“One day during his time in the Southwest, Leopold and several companions chanced upon a female wolf ans shot her. "We reached…

— Bruce Hampton

“Quipped one frustrated Colorado rancher in the early 1920s, "Wolves have all been trapped at, shot at, and poisoned at so long…

— Bruce Hampton

“In the span of three hundred years nationwide, but only seventy years in the West, hunters in the United States had managed…

— Bruce Hampton

“For centuries the wolf was North America's beast, an animal transmogrified into a mythic and blood-lustful killer, pursued by every conceivable means,…

— Bruce Hampton

“...they marveled at the animal's elusiveness, loyalty, and affection, its willingness to defend its territory; its stamina and ability to travel long…

— Bruce Hampton

“According to the Iroquois, when the Creator made the animals of the earth, He shot each one in the left hind leg…

— Bruce Hampton

“Despite its misrepresentations, Mowat's book shattered many myths and untruths that had hung about the wolf's neck for centuries. Mowat's wolves weren't…

— Bruce Hampton

“From that time forth, whenever a critical decision had to be made concerning the future, the Oneida considered "how much was enough…

— Bruce Hampton