This great photo of tundra wolf pups at the densite was taken by client George Nagel during a 'Dance with Wolves' trip to northern Canada. A third pup was in the den while this photo was taken, and emerged shortly after. Tundra wolves and fox favor digging dens under the tree-root systems in the scattered groups of white spruce trees that grow in sand esker systems found on the central barrenlands on the mainland regions of Northern Canada. Trees such as these are truly old-growth forest in every sense of the word - magnified stump ring counts reveal that they can range from 800-1100 years old. Den activity locales link directly to the northbound caribou migration routes that often vary from season to season.

Martin Zeilig