Key+Quotations


 * "Evidence...seemed to prove that the plunge of the caribou toward extinction was primarily due to the __depredations__ of the wolf...Although I had searched diligently for evidence which would please my superiors, I had so far found none. Nor did it appear I was likely to." (Mowat, 67.)**

This quotation illustrates the fact that Mowat was sent to the Barrens to prove that wolves were directly responsible for the decline of the caribou in order to justify a "campaign" to exterminate the wolves. Mowat later remarks that while he doesn't have proof that the wolves are eating caribou, he can't imagine what they could be eating since all the creatures around are tiny: mice, ground squirrels and fish.

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