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Alaska's Wolf Man The 1915-55 Wilderness Adventures of Frank Glaser

Jim Rearden

Between 1915 and 1955 adventure-seeking Frank Glaser, a latter-day Far North Mountain Man, trekked across wilderness Alaska on foot, by wolf-dog team, and eventually, by airplane. In his career he was a market hunter, trapper, roadhouse owner, professional dog team musher, and a federal predator con...

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The MeatEater Podcast

The podcast discussed a book about Alaska's Wolfman and his methods of wolf management, which involved poisoning carcasses and using poisoned fat balls to kill wolves.

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The book I'm reading right now, I keep talking about, I want to do a full report on it. Alaska's Wolfman.

— Episode: Ep. 273: Hunting with Sharks

Episode: Ep. 273: Hunting with Sharks

The podcast discussed a book about Alaska's Wolfman and his methods of wolf management, which involved poisoning carcasses and using poisoned fat balls to kill wolves.

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The book I'm reading right now, I keep talking about, I want to do a full report on it. Alaska's Wolfman.

When he was doing wolf work, he would go into an area where there was like a caribou herd that was getting too much predation on it. And any patch of high ground around, he would shoot a caribou, lace his carcass with strychnine, and then use also little balls of fat that he would also poison and scatter them all around. And that was his methodology.

Very effective. Very effective. Very effective.

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