Named after the elderly leader of the wolf pack in Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, Akela is a handsome five-year-old wolf with a distinctively long snout and expressive golden eyes....
Returning songbirds tweet joyfully in the trees. Geese honk overhead. Ground squirrels have reemerged and the sound of their chirping surrounds us. The trees are starting to bud, and the...
After playtime in the wolf garden, Animal Caretakers Tayler and Makai found sanctuary wolf Kaya with a cheek so swollen she resembled a chipmunk preparing for winter. They didn’t see...
Many years ago, Jean, Co-founder of Earthfire Institute, saw a magnificent old cottonwood tree stump lying on a sidewalk in Driggs, ID. It lay on its side in the hot...
For those of us who love wolves and know how critical they are to the health of many ecosystems, this year’s wave of government-sanctioned wolf hunts in states across the...
Cucumber was a small, aloof wolf. For years she went about her business working to become the alpha female in her pack. She wanted little to do with humans. One...
There are just as many personality differences in animals as there are in people, a concept that becomes more evident to me each time I do my daily rounds. While...
Between getting ready for winter and speaking at a variety of events, we’ve been especially busy lately. But Dante Rios, our animal caretaker, has been delighting us with beautiful pictures...
The weather was perfect and the girls were ready, so we knew it was the right day for releasing our rehabilitation raccoons. We found the ideal spot with a small...
Tiny arms intertwined with one another, the two orphaned baby squirrels lay sleeping. I gently disentangled the little girl for a feeding. So tiny they fit into one half of...
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