"A Reporter's Meditation on Scarcity of Wildness"

The wolf known as OR7 prompted some reflective writing -- and a flood of reader response -- in the Pacific states. The coverage reminds us that there is room for the personal and evocative as well as the objective and informative in environmental journalism. And it restored Sacramento Bee writer Matt Weiser's faith in the newspaper.

Charlie Petit reports for Knight Science Journalism Tracker August 25, 2014.

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"Wolf Pups, And the Return of Wild Wonder" (High Country News)