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 clumps of white spruce trees that grow in sand esker systems found on the central barrenlands in the mainland of Nunavut & the NWT. 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.

Lonnie Brock