Conservation history made: In January 1995, the late Mollie Beattie, then national director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt (blue jacket) and Yellowstone Superintendent Mike Finley to the right of Babbitt, carried in the first group of wolf transplants to their pens in the Lamar Valley of Yellowstone. The author of this essay, Norman Bishop, can be seen in the photo at far right. Photo courtesy Jim Peaco/National Park Service.
Conservation history made: In January 1995, the late Mollie Beattie, then national director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt (blue jacket) and Yellowstone Superintendent Mike Finley to the right of Babbitt, carried in the first group of wolf transplants to their pens in the Lamar Valley of Yellowstone. The author of this essay, Norman Bishop, can be seen in the photo at far right. Photo courtesy Jim Peaco/National Park Service.