Bob Hayes researched wolves in the Yukon for 20 years. Using a combination of narratives and easy-to-follow essays, his book follows the history of the Yukon wolf from the end of the Ice Age to present day. Bob also explores his original research into wolf relations to moose, caribou, mountain sheep, ravens, grizzly bears and human hunters. In the last chapter he tells us why broad-scale killing of wolves to increase game should end. Finally, Wolves of the Yukon raises profound arguments about how to value and conserve one of the largest remaining tract of complete wilderness on the continent.

For 20 years, Robert (Bob) Hayes was the Yukon's wolf biologist. During those years, he studied hundreds of radio-collared wolves and conducted several long-term wolf-prey studies. He is considered a world expert on moose and caribou predation by wolves and the effects of wolf control efforts on wolves and their prey.

Bob's long-term research has led him to believe widespread aerial control of wolves is biologically wrong and that non-lethal methods of reducing predation is the future of wolf management.

This led him to spend years writing his first book for public consumption, Wolves of the Yukon, a book which he self-published and has been a success in both English and German editions.

Bob served as a Canadian member of the IUCN Wolf Specialist group for nearly a decade. He and his wife, Caroline, share their time between Whitehorse and Smithers, British Columbia. Bob is a Simon Fraser University Alumni.

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I am always skeptical of "yet another wolf—book" hitting the markets because all too often authors are pumping out words to capitalize on a market hungry for such material. Facts end up getting rehashed and rehashed until the life is beat out of it. However, I found this book so powerful as to leave me craving for more at the end of each chapter. I even experienced that doleful feeling that rarely overcomes me when I realize I am nearing the end of the book! This is some wolf book!
Dick Thiel, retired biologist and educator, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources