PHOTO OF THE DAY June 30, 2004  

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Where Ely, Minnesota, United States
When 1997
Photographer Joel Sartore

"After decades of darkness, the wolf is back, but under circumstances that are hardly natural. For eons wolves survived because they were fierce competitors; today they live because we want them to. People now wield the power to say: Let there be wolves."

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Return of the Gray Wolf," May 1998, National Geographic magazine)

(Text adapted from "Return of the Gray Wolf," May 1998, National Geographic magazine)


Return of the Wolf
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