[Landline] Sleeping outside
Wolf tracker Linda Thurston curls up in an abandoned wolf den in Yellowstone National Park.
For more than 20 years, Linda has observed wolf behavior and den habits in Yellowstone. “I was lucky enough to be there when the wolves arrived in Yellowstone,” says Thurston. “But they wouldn’t come out of their pens right away. We had to lure them out with roadkill meat.” She tracks wolves using radio telemetry, and her years of study have shed light on wolf family lifestyles and pack behavior. Thurston has been following some wolves, like the Druid pack, for so long that she knows them as well as she does her own dogs.
— From the book People of Yellowstone, with photos by Steve Horan and profiles by Ruth W. Crocker, via Outside Magazine and High Country News