In 1948-49, the Canadian WIldlife Service assigned a young biologist the difficult task of researching the decline in Caribou populations which was begining to greatly effect the local economy. In particular, Mowatt was to determine if the downward spiral in population was a result of overhunting or, as many believed casused by the ever growing poulation of wolves in the area. What began as an assignement for one man soon became a movement with the gola of saving the habitat and in fact the very existence of north American Wolves.
Farley spent several months alone on the tundra of northern Alberta, in this time he found that wolves, instead o the ferocious killing machines of their reptation, were in fact gentle and social. In fact as he stayed near one wolf family Mowatt discovered that he was accepted, however tenoulsy into their community.
