Cascadia Wild runs a Wolverine Tracking Project for the Mount Hood National Forest: https://www.cascadiawild.org.
The following nonprofit organizations support wolverine research, conservation, and legislation:
Center for Biological Diversity: https://www.biologicaldiversity.org.
National Resources Defense Council: https://www.nrdc.org.
Conservation Northwest keeps a list of ongoing wolverine news: https://www.conservationnw.org.
Idaho Conservation League: https://www.idahoconservation.org.
Acknowledgments
Many thanks to my amazing agent, Alexander Slater, whose belief in this series really shined through. My wonderful editor, Lyssa Keusch, is an absolute pleasure to work with, and our shared love of wildlife enriched the book. Many thanks to Elsie Lyons for creating such a phenomenal cover, and I am grateful to Nancy Singer for her superb interior design.
Thank you to fellow writer Michael McBride for his generous help.
Thank you to Jon Edwards, whose extensive military knowledge was very helpful in creating the backstory for Alex’s mother.
I am so very grateful for friends and readers who have been supportive of my writing career, so my gratitude to Dawn, Shavell, Sarah, and Jon.
Thank you to my lifelong friend Becky, who’s been with me since my early days of wanting to be a writer. And thank you to kindred spirit, fellow creator, and conservationist Jason, whose continued encouragement and support have been a steady source of inspiration and strength.
About the Author
In addition to being a writer, ALICE HENDERSON is a wildlife sanctuary monitor, geographic information systems specialist, and bioacoustician. She documents wildlife on specialized recording equipment, checks remote cameras, creates maps, and undertakes wildlife surveys to determine what species are present on preserves, while ensuring there are no signs of poaching. She’s surveyed for the presence of grizzlies, wolves, wolverines, jaguars, endangered bats, and more. Please visit her at www.AliceHenderson.com.
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Copyright
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
a solitude of wolverines. Copyright © 2020 by Alice Henderson. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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