Rick McIntyre is the acclaimed author of the award-winning Alpha Wolves of Yellowstone series which includes the books The Rise of Wolf 8, The Reign of Wolf 21, The Redemption of Wolf 302, The Alpha Female Wolf, and Thinking Like a Wolf . He is also the author of the children’s book The Unlikely Hero: The Story of Wolf 8. He has spent more time observing and documenting wolves in the wild than any other person. A retired National Park ranger, McIntyre has spent more than forty years watching wolves in America’s national parks, twenty-five of those years in Yellowstone, where he has accumulated over 100,000 wolf sightings, worked on the Yellowstone Wolf Reintroduction Project, and educated the public about the park’s wolves. He lives in Silver Gate, Montana.