Context:

Steve discusses this book while explaining the history of wolf control in Alaska. He mentions it's about one of the first wolf control agents who became active in the 1920s, describing the progression from gun hunting to using poisons for wolf control, and providing specific examples from the book about the effectiveness of poison baits.

Context:

Steve references this book, describing it as 'a guy's journal' about a wolfer operating at the mouth of the Muscle Shell River where it flows into the Missouri. He quotes specific passages about the wolfer checking bait stations and returning with forty wolves, and an incident involving a tribal representative complaining about losing twenty-four dogs to strychnine baits.

Context:

Steve mentions anthropologist Richard K. Nelson's work documenting the Koyukon people's traditional hunting practices. He specifically references Nelson's documentation of the Koyukon belief that it was unethical to kill a bear any way other than digging it out of its den, and that shooting a bear above ground was not acceptable practice.