Search for One Wolf; Direct Dispatches From the High Arctic

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Search for One Wolf; Direct Dispatches From the High Arctic

MINNESOTA, MINNEAPOLIS, Jun. 27 -/E-Wire/-- World-renowned wolf biologist, L. David Mech, embarks on an expedition to the High Arctic June 29, in pursuit of a wolf named Explorer, who may be the last of a line he has been studying there for 15 years. The public will be able to follow Mech as he relays periodic Notes from the Field dispatches which will appear on the International Wolf Center web site ( http://www.wolf.org ).

Mech, a senior research scientist with the Biological Resources Division of the U.S. Geological Survey, last saw Explorer during the summer of 2000. She was then with a mate from a distant pack. Now the biologist seeks to discover whether he can find Explorer and if she has borne any pups that may perpetuate the genetic line of his long investigation.

The line was comprised of white Arctic wolves that Mech befriended and lived with each summer since 1986. The only pack in the world that anyone has been so close with for so long, it has yielded much valuable information about wolves in the wild. Mech's first report appeared in National Geographic magazine and the subsequent National Geographic Society's Explorer TV documentary, White Wolf. The program will be rerun July 15 on CNBC at 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. and 10:00 - 12:00 p.m. CST with an update from Mech. Mech has also written a number of books based on his field studies of these arctic wolves, The Arctic Wolf: Living with the Pack; Wolves of the High Arctic; and The Arctic Wolf: Ten Years with the Pack. All were published by Voyageur Press.

This time, however, the public will get a sense of even greater immediacy when Notes from the Field appears on the International Wolf Center's web site at http://www.wolf.org

Mech will be accompanied by Walter Medwid, executive director of the International Wolf Center, an educational organization whose mission is to support the survival of the wolf around the world by teaching about its life, its associations with other species and its dynamic relationships to humans. The men leave Minnesota to fly to Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, then on to Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories and Resolute Bay, an Inuit village on Cornwallis Island, (75 degrees N. Latitude) Nunavut on June 30. After that, the timing of the last leg of the trip to 80 degrees latitude in the High Arctic is open, as they leave the world of scheduled flights.

International Wolf Center

http://www.wolf.org /

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