In the preface to Never Cry Wolf, Mowat writes that he first intended to grant the wolves only a small part in the book and to focus instead on government bureaucracy, which mismanages and misdirects much of the conservation effort today. Although his book does expose bureaucratic foolishness and lack of vision, its main thrust calls for the protection of wild wolves—both from the unintentional pressures of a developing society and from the intentionally malign influence of self-righteous bureaucrats.
Mowat narrates his own development in the book. Although he suspects at the beginning of his journey that the government employees who send him to the Northwest Territories do not understand the practical elements of living in the far north, Mowat continues to share their misconceptions about wolves. Assigned to determine the wolves' effect on the.....
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