Books

Wolf Island: Discovering the Secrets of a Mythic Animal

Mech, L. D., and G. Breining. 2020. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis. 188 pp.

https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/wolf-island

 

 

Wolves on the Hunt: Behavior of Wolves Hunting Wild Prey

Mech, L. D., D. W. Smith, and D. R. MacNulty. 2015. Wolves on the Hunt: Behavior of Wolves Hunting Wild Prey. University of Chicago Press. 187 pp.

http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/W/bo20145329.htm

Wolves: Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation

Mech, L. D., and L. Boitani (Editors). 2003. Wolves: Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation. University of Chicago Press. 428 pp.

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/W/bo3641392.html

Wildlife Publication Award, Outstanding Edited-Book Category. 2004. The Wildlife Society. This is a comprehensive, reference book with 50 colored photos and over 2,000 references.

The Wolves of Minnesota: Howl in the Heartland

Mech, L. D. (Editor). 2000. The Wolves of Minnesota: Howl in the Heartland. Voyageur Press, Stillwater, MN. 127 pp.

Out of print but available on Amazon

A general book for the public about wolves and prey in Minnesota, emphasizing findings of a long-term study in northeastern Minnesota’s Superior National Forest.

The Wolves of Denali

Mech, L. D., L. G. Adams. T. J. Meier, J. W. Burch, and B. W. Dale. 1998. The Wolves of Denali. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis. 227 pp.

https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-wolves-of-denali

Covers wolf and prey research in Denali National Park 1986-1995 and provides more general discussion of selected topics such as home range determination, dispersal, and culling of inferior prey.

The Arctic Wolf: Ten Years With the Pack

Mech, L. D. 1997. The Arctic Wolf: Ten Years With the Pack. Voyageur Press, Stillwater, MN. 144 pp. (English, Hungarian, and Czech)

Honorable Mention, National Outdoor Book Awards, 1998.

This book contains the same text and many of the same photos as The Arctic Wolf: Living with the Pack (below) but substitutes many new photos for those in the earlier book and updates the material through 1997.

Wolves of the High Arctic

Mech, L. D. 1992. Wolves of the High Arctic. Voyageur Press, Stillwater, MN. 128 pp.

Primarily a photo book with basic information about arctic wolves given through an interview with the author.

Out of print but available from Amazon.com.

 

The Way of the Wolf

Mech, L. D. 1991. The Way of the Wolf. Voyageur Press, Stillwater, MN. 120 pp. (English and German)

This book updates information about wolves through about 1994 for a more general readership than The Wolf: The Ecology and Behavior of an Endangered Species or Wolves: Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation.

Out of print but available on Amazon

The Arctic Wolf: Living With the Pack

Mech, L. D. 1988. The Arctic Wolf: Living With the Pack. Voyageur Press, Stillwater, MN 128 pp. (English, French, German, Italian)

Best book by Minnesota author, 1989 Book Arts Category, Minnesota Festival of the Book. Out of print but sometimes available from Amazon.com.

Same text as in The Arctic Wolf: Ten Years with the Pack but latter book (below) includes a short updating through 1997 and some new photos.

A Handbook of Animal Radio-Tracking

Mech, L. D. 1983. A Handbook of Animal Radio-Tracking. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis. 108 pp.

http://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Animal-Radio-Tracking-David-Mech/dp/0816612218

 

 

The Wolf: The Ecology and Behavior of an Endangered Species

Mech, L. D. 1970. The Wolf: The Ecology and Behavior of an Endangered Species. Natural History Press (Doubleday Publishing Co., N.Y.) 389 pp. (Reprinted in paperback by University of Minnesota Press, May 1981).

https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-wolf

Originally published in 1970, the book was reprinted in 1981 in soft cover and with a new Preface. It won the Best Terrestrial Wildlife Publications Award by the Wildlife Society in 1972 and the Best Wildlife Book Award by the Symposium on Threatened and Endangered Wildlife in 1974. Although still in print, the book is out of date on several important subjects. It has been superseded by The Way of the Wolf and Wolves: Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation.

The Wolves of Isle Royale

• The Wolves of Isle Royale, 1966. U. S. Govt. Printing Office, 210 pp. (Reprinted 2002. University of the Pacific, Honolulu, Hawaii)