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I Was a Middle-Aged Wolfman: Chasing Wolves in Idaho's Backcountry
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May 17, 2026
I went down a wolf rabbit hole after reading Adam Weymouth’s Lone Wolf: Walking the Line Between Civilization and Wildness (about European politics, immigration, and the return of the wolf to Western Europe). Eventually I turned my gaze to the US, curious to see how wolf reintroduction happens here. I learned about the Nez Perce Tribe’s efforts to recover the wolf in Idaho and was over the moon when I discovered that “Oh! Someone wrote a whole book about it!”
This was my path to I Was a Middle-Aged Wolfman: Chasing Wolves in Idaho's Backcountry, which was an absolute pleasure to read. If you’re a wildlife biologist (or aspiring to be one), you’ll find this book and the anecdotes of field trips funny and relatable. If you think you might have a diagnosable obsession with wolves (don’t look at me)—or maybe you’d like to develop one!—you’ll have the chance to read numerous fascinating stories about wolf encounters, wolf trapping and radio collaring… It’s just mesmerizing. Humorous and endearing
It’s also a great read if you want to piece together the history of politics and wolf recovery in Idaho: the state and a part of its population never wanted wolves in the first place, and since the state’s takeover of wolf “management,” things aren’t looking so good for the wolves and it’s very saddening (but that’s a whole different story).
This was my path to I Was a Middle-Aged Wolfman: Chasing Wolves in Idaho's Backcountry, which was an absolute pleasure to read. If you’re a wildlife biologist (or aspiring to be one), you’ll find this book and the anecdotes of field trips funny and relatable. If you think you might have a diagnosable obsession with wolves (don’t look at me)—or maybe you’d like to develop one!—you’ll have the chance to read numerous fascinating stories about wolf encounters, wolf trapping and radio collaring… It’s just mesmerizing. Humorous and endearing
It’s also a great read if you want to piece together the history of politics and wolf recovery in Idaho: the state and a part of its population never wanted wolves in the first place, and since the state’s takeover of wolf “management,” things aren’t looking so good for the wolves and it’s very saddening (but that’s a whole different story).
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