Rick McIntyre is retired National Park ranger. He spent more than 40 years watching wolves in America’s national parks, including 25 years in Yellowstone, where he accumulated over 100,000 wolf sightings. He worked on the Yellowstone Wolf Reintroduction Project, and educated the public about the park’s wolves.McIntyre has written four nonfiction books about the wolves of Yellowstone: "The Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone's Underdog," published in 2019, "The Reign of Wolf 21: The Saga of Yellowstone's Legendary Druid Pack," published in 2020, "The Redemption of Wolf 302: From Renegade to Yellowstone Alpha Male," published in 2021, and "The Alpha Female Wolf: The Fierce Legacy of Yellowstone's 06," published in 2022.