National Parks Service/Neal Herbert
As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?
I loved everything about dinosaurs, so I wanted to be a vertebrate palaeontologist.
Were you good at science at school?
I did well enough. Reading Walden; or, A Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau inspired me to work in a nature-related career.
What is it about wolves that you find so interesting?
I worked at Denali National Park in Alaska for 15 summers after college and originally was most interested in grizzly bears. I saw them nearly every day. But I found that wolves had…
