It was just in time, as the species was declared extinct in the wild in 1980 ... in 2019 by the National Academy of Sciences, which concludes that red wolves are a legitimate wolf species ...

This story appears in the March 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Divide rise in the distance, and a wild river flows close by. Wolf tracks intersect with the prints of elk, deer ...

Shielded by their remote location and inhospitable climate, these wild animals have not yet learned to fear humans. This is the most intimate film about wolf behavior ever made.