Talk of Alaska

The Wolf

Alaska Public Media | By Steve Heimel

Published October 4, 2013 at 4:00 PM AKDT

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Biologist Gordon Haber may have spent more hours observing Alaska’s wolves than anyone else. He died in a 2009 plane crash tracking wolves in Denali National Park. His work will be the subject of a book coming out later this month.

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The light tan female and charcoal gray male of the Toklat family group, both almost six years old. Like many mated wolf pairs I've know, they have a close relationshipo year-round and are commonly right next to each other while traveling, at rest, and during other activities. February 2009. Photo by Gordon Haber. — The light tan female and charcoal gray male of the Toklat family group, both almost six years old. February 2009. Photo by Gordon Haber.

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Toklat mother and three two-month-old pups ignore the photographer and a park bus full of visitors while traveling the Denali National Park road. June 1990. Photo by Gordon Haber, — Toklat mother and three two-month-old pups ignore the photographer and a park bus full of visitors while traveling the Denali National Park road. June 1990. Photo by Gordon Haber.

Two Toklat pups. 1968. Photo by Gordon Haber.

Toklat wolves romping on a sunny afternoon. October 2007. Photo by Gordon Haber.