The Endangered Species Act is under assault by the Trump Administration. We shall examine the controversial issue of wolf reintroduction in light of this assault. Specifically we shall consider the case of wolf reintroduction in Yellowstone. Wolves bring forth many questions as we imagine the natural world as we go forward. Is reintroduction a question for scientists, politicians, local residents, or the nation as a whole?

George D. Catalano is a SUNY Distinguished Service Professor and Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Binghamton University. He has over 40 years in academia having been on the faculty at Binghamton University, Louisiana State University, the United States Military Academy at West Point, the Air Force Institute of Technology and the Polytechnic Institute in Turin, Italy. George also is a veteran in the U.S. Air Force having served as an aircraft maintenance officer during the Vietnam War and a laser aerodynamicist at Wright Patterson AFB. George has devoted the last several decades of his professional life to the study of wolves and our ethical responsibilities towards them and all of the natural world. George is married to his lovely wife and life partner, Karen, and lives with a pack of Alaskan malamutes in Binghamton, New York.