Ely, Minnesota
1997
Joel Sartore

For the moment, peace surrounds this gray wolf at the International Wolf Center in Ely, Minnesota. Elsewhere, wolves are hounded by controversy, as livestock owners???who nearly eradicated wolves in the early 1900s???protest the reintroduction of wolves to public lands.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Return of the Gray Wolf," May 1998, National Geographic magazine)

(Text adapted from "Return of the Gray Wolf," May 1998, National Geographic magazine)

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