Jim Rearden 
The Wolves of Alaska 
A Fact-based Saga

Jim Rearden is Alaska’s most popular outdoors journalist. He holds two degrees in wildlife management and was Professor of Wildlife Management at the University of Alaska Fairbanks 1950-54. As a member of the Alaska Board of Game 75-82 he helped develop the Tanana Flats wolf control program. He details with historical accuracy the controversy that erupted when the 1975 program was announced.
Counterpointing the modern controversy, Rearden includes exciting segments of his best-selling Alaska’s Wolf Man, the story of Frank Glaser, Alaska’s full-time government wolf hunter who hunted wolves in the Territory of Alaska 1915-1955.
Alaska’s wolves are the main characters in this historically and biologically accurate recounting. Included are vivid anecdotes about wolves with descriptions of their behavior and way of life, examples of their intelligence, and expressions of appreciation for their charm and beauty, as well as an honest look at their savage efficiency as predators and relationship to urban and rural Alaskans.

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Contents
Acknowledgements ix
Prologue xi
Introduction xii
1. Hooked on wolves: The market hunter
2. The Ambassador: I enlist: Savage River
3. The Campaign: The Black Pack
4. Hell breaks loose: Savage River Wolves
5. The Crises: Professor Rearden: The wolf dogs
6. Fairbanks in December: Letters
7. Board member: Pat’s say: A daytime hunt
8. Educating Pat: Nature’s way
9. Staff Report: Pat is hired: Glaser’s wolf dogs
10. Kenai: Wolf dog problems
11. Pat’s approach: Snow: Captive wolf: Moose kill
12. About wolves
13. Northway elder: The neighborhood killers
14. The flight: Glaser’s new career
15. The Governor speaks up: Park observation
16. Davy’s arm: Lord Balmar: Saving Reindeer
17. Grant leaves: My caribou article: Amuguq Frank
18. Anaktuvuk: Ren’s wolf notes: Pat’s fur parka
19. Wolf den: Moose kill: Lady: Aerial wolf hunt
20. The Teller Wolf
21. Pat resigns: Love prevails: Moose John and Punyuk
22. Wolverine Village: Uncle Toby: Glaser retires
23. Success in 20A
24. The Nelchina mystery: Wolf summit: Harbo’s plan
25. Bunde’s resolution: Wolf consensus?
Epilogue 319
Fictional characters and names 323
Nonfiction characters 325
References 333
About Jim Rearden 338

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Jim Rearden has been a resident of Alaska since 1950. Among his various Alaskan jobs, Rearden has been a college professor, a gandy dancer for the Alaska Railroad, a registered big game guide, a carpenter, commercial fisherman, construction laborer, management biologist for commercial fisheries (Alaska Department of Fish and Game), and a freelance writer/photographer. He served 12 years on the Alaska Board of Fish and Game and Alaska Board of Game. President Gerald Ford appointed him to the National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere where he served 18 months. He has written 29 books on Alaskan subjects and 500 magazine articles for about 40 different magazines around the world. For 20 years he was Outdoors Editor for Alaska Magazine, and simultaneously a Field Editor for Outdoor Life magazine. He holds wildlife conservation degrees from Oregon State University and the University of Maine, as well as an honorary Dr. of Science degree from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He lives in Homer, Alaska with his wife Audrey, in a log house he built himself.