On the Trail of Wolves

A chance to move to the US Wild West allows TV presenter Philippa Forrester to fulfil a lifelong dream of living among and learning all she can about wolves When Philippa Forrester and her nature-loving family moved to the wilds of Grand Teton National Park, they quickly learned to love the wildlife of Wyoming and nearby Yellowstone. The sounds of wolves close to their new home fed Philippa's lifelong fascination with these remarkable animals, but nothing she had learned about wolves from her studies in the UK could have prepared her for the reality of living in wolf country. And as she and her family settled into their new wilder way of life, she discovered many locals are not excited about sharing their land with wolves. Twenty-five years after wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park, wolf packs are spreading into areas where their protection has been removed by the American administration. Without that protection, what is the future for wolves where many people resent that they were ever here at all? In On the Trail of Wolves, Philippa vividly recounts her adventures living among the grizzlies, elk and wolves in her new home in America's Wild West and chronicles her journeys further from home to talk to conservationists, rangers, hunters and ranch owners to investigate when and why opinions on wolves became so polarised.

Philippa Forrester's career as a TV presenter in the UK began with Children's BBC and spans almost three decades of primetime including much-loved programmes like Robot Warsand Tomorrow's Worldas well as her beloved natural history programmes. She has spent most of her career specialising in science and factual television. In 2001, she created Halcyon Media with her husband Charlie Hamilton James and has written and produced a string of award-winning documentaries for the BBC, Animal Planet and Discovery. Philippa has published three books, has degrees in English literature and Ecology and Conservation and recently graduated with an MA in writing for young people from Bath Spa. She currently lives and works in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where grizzly bears join children in the playground, her three sons wear cowboy boots and lasso ropes and her husband is one step away from chewing tobacco. @philippaforrest

Map of The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem Prologue Chapter 1: The Phantom Springs pack Chapter 2: How close does a bear have to be before you spray him? Chapter 3: Ken and Barbie Chapter 4: A lone wolf Chapter 5: On the Snake Chapter 6: Wolves are a problem that won't go away Chapter 7: Wolves are like Marmite Chapter 8: Wrolf Chapter 9: Fight or flight Chapter 10: A moment in time Chapter 11: I'm just another groupie Chapter 12: The soap opera Chapter 13: Elk curry and wolf talk Chapter 14: The wolf watcher's surprise Chapter 15: Hunting the hunter Chapter 16: The wolf lady Chapter 17: Another way Chapter 18: Wolves up the arse