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Ellesmere, a Canadian island just 500 miles south of the North Pole, is a beautiful but forbidding world where the summer sun is candlelight soft and few living things can survive. It is also one of the last places on earth where the wolf roams unthreatened by man. In 1986 two men, biologist L. David Mech and photographer Jim Brandenburg, set out for Ellesmere to do what no one had ever done: live with a wild-wolf pack. Achieving all they had hoped for and more, Mech and Brandenburg managed to set up camp next to a wolf...
...story of those remarkable summers is told in a pair of picture-filled books to be published this month: Mech's The Arctic Wolf: Living with the Pack (Voyageur Press; $24.95) and Brandenburg's White Wolf: Living with an Arctic Legend (NorthWord Press; $40). Later this fall Brandenburg's film documentary of the second expedition will air as a National Geographic TV special. These portraits of the Arctic wolf will surprise many readers and viewers. For all its vaunted prowess as a fierce predator, the wolf leads a tough life and relies on complex social behavior to survive...
...recent years, however, a growing body of literature, notably Barry Lopez's Of Wolves and Men and R.D. Lawrence's In Praise of Wolves, has tried to rehabilitate the wolf's reputation. But specialists have been forced to study shy wild animals from a distance. No one actually lived with a wild-wolf pack and returned with photographs to prove it until Mech and Brandenburg traveled to Ellesmere...
...Mech and Brandenburg got to know the pack, they gave each wolf a name. Among them were Scruffy, a playful yearling who was picked on by his elders, and Mom, an easygoing female. At one point, Mom calmly watched as her puffball pups scrambled over Mech's feet, untying his shoelaces. Later, Brandenburg entered the den and photographed the babies while Mom waited outside...
Holway said Wolf and Ward Five committee members should "follow the charter or get off the committees." He added that Cambridge Democrats have spent "a great deal of time on a divisive [state representative] campaign, when we should be seeing that Mike Dukakis wins his home state...