Wolfer: A Memoir

by Carter Niemeyer, Nicholas Evans (Introduction), Jenny Niemeyer (Editor)

Overview

HIS PLAN WAS TO STAY IN IOWA, maybe get a job counting ducks, or do a little farming. But events conspired to fling Carter Niemeyer westward and straight into the jaws of wolves. From his early years wrangling ornery federal trappers, eagles and grizzlies, to winning a skinning contest that paved the way for wolf reintroduction in the Northern Rockies, Carter Niemeyer reveals the wild and bumpy ride that turned a trapper - a killer - into a champion of wolves.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780984811366
Publisher:	Bottlefly Press
Publication date:	09/01/2020
Edition description:	3rd ed.
Pages:	358
Sales rank:	704,415
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Carter Niemeyer is a retired federal trapper and wildlife biologist who was a key member of the Northern Rockies wolf reintroduction team in the mid-1990's. He was portrayed as trapper Bill Rimmer in Nicholas Evans' novel, The Loop.

Nicholas Evans is a bestselling author whose book, The Horse Whisperer, was made into a major motion picture.

Jenny Niemeyer is the editor at Bottlefly Press.

Editorial Reviews

"Niemeyer's cogent tale is full of empathy, and his adventures and the mind-boggling challenges he faces will rivet readers." -Publishers Weekly

"...a Rooster Cogburn meets Forrest Gump adventure..." -The Oregonian

"(Niemeyer) is a kind of thoughtful everyman, beset by marital troubles, poverty, doubt, befriended by eccentric outcasts, often bossed around by lesser men, rattling along in a bucket-of-bolts old truck, hungry, cold, and always, always, enthralled with the wild animals that he, in the end, serves rather than destroys." - High Country News

From the Publisher

In this colorful memoir, Niemeyer explores a life shaped by wolves, suspicious ranchers, intrepid trappers, other extraordinary characters, and convoluted politics. "Wolves had a way of working their way into my life," Niemeyer writes, "like a worm through an apple. They are just animals, of course, but they have a way of making people nuts, and for that matter, attracting nutty people." A government expert who reintroduced endangered gray wolves to the West, Niemeyer works day and night to become a revered wildlife expert and develop a real understanding of the often unjustly maligned wolf. Among the book's many engaging anecdotes are stories about grinding up prairie dogs for bait, flea treatments for trappers, and capturing a dart-gunned grizzly. Niemeyer's cogent tale is full of empathy, and his adventures and the mind-boggling challenges he faces will rivet readers.

Publishers Weekly