by RALPH MAUGHAN
Film on Yellowstone’s most recently famous wolf, “The ’06 Female” (wolf 832F)-
The latest program about the Yellowstone wolves, “She Wolf,” filmed by Emmy Award winning cinematographer Bob Landis, will air this Sunday, 1/19/14, at 9 p.m. ET on the National Geographic Wild channel.
Bob Landis has been out in Yellowstone Park in all kinds of weather for most of time since wolves were restored to Yellowstone beginning in 1995. Millions have seen his films telling the stories of the wolves and their interactions with each other and the rest of the wildlife of our first national park.
There is an excellent, but violent, wolf conflict scene in a trailer on the National Geographic Channel. Watching this I am again taken how most Americans who watch these films are able, willing, excited to see nature in the raw, while so many anti-wolf “tough guys” blanch when confronted with a bit of outdoors reality.
Of this film, Kathie Lynch writes, “Yellowstone’s most recently famous wolf, “The ’06 Female” (“’06″/832F) won the hearts of wolf watchers from around the world as they followed her incredible life in the wild for six years. As the alpha female of the Lamar Canyon pack, she raised three litters of pups with mate 755M. She amazed watchers and gained fame as an incredible hunter able to kill an elk by herself. After a Wyoming wolf hunter’s bullet ended her life in December 2012, her pack fragmented, illustrating the importance of each individual to a wolf pack’s social structure. Today, just one of her daughters remains in Yellowstone’s famed Lamar Valley, but “’06′s” legacy lives on.”