Tells the story of the Yellowstone National Park wolf recovery project in 1995, in which fourteen gray wolves were transported from the Canadian wilderness and released in Yellowstone, marking the restoring of wolves to an area from which they had been absent for almost 100 years.
Depicts, in text and illustrations, the stages of fire and regrowth in a Western lodgepole pine forest over a period of three hundred years. Also discusses the fire cycle and the role of fire in forest ecology.
Presents a photographic introduction to Yellowstone National Park, examining its location, natural features, early visitors, and animal life, and discussing the threat posed by fire.
Describes the season of fire that struck Yellowstone in 1988, and examines the complex ecology that returns plant and animal life to a seemingly barren, ash-covered expanse.