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Howl is a five-part written series and podcast collaboration between Idaho Capital Sun and Boise State Public Radio/NPR • Idaho Capital Sun [1]

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Date: 2025-05



BOISE, IDAHO — Seventy years ago, wolves had been virtually exterminated from the Western U.S. But the wolves’ remarkable recovery started Jan. 14, 1995, when a handful of adults were released in Idaho and Yellowstone National Park. The animals thrived, and now the Western U.S. has more than 3,000 wolves from Idaho to the Mexican border.

“Howl,” an ambitious new print and podcast series by the Idaho Capital Sun and Boise State Public Radio/NPR takes readers and listeners deep into the backcountry to tell one of America’s wildest comeback stories – wolf reintroduction. Reporters Clark Corbin and Heath Druzin spent 14 months trekking through harsh and remote territory to explore how politics and science have collided while these once-endangered animals struggle to survive.

Putting wolves back in the West was the most controversial wildlife program in U.S. history, and their reintroduction is a fascinating story that includes adventure, frostbite, even death threats and gunshots.

Howl is a story about wolves and about people. Corbin and Druzin conducted dozens of interviews with people affected most by wolves.

“We ventured deep into some of the last wild places left in the Lower 48 with two of the original people who brought wolves back by hand,” Corbin said. “And we sat down with people who have seen wolves literally eat into their profits by killing cattle and sheep. Howl is an epic story of life and death in the West that took more than a year to report and write.”

The five-part print series and five-part podcast are scheduled to launch Wednesday, June 4. Story installments will be released on IdahoCapitalSun.com and BoiseStatePublicRadio.org weekly each Wednesday morning thereafter. Podcast episodes will be available everywhere you get podcasts. Like all work produced by States Newsroom, the Idaho Capital Sun’s parent nonprofit, our stories are available to be picked up by any news outlet for free with proper attribution.

“You may think you know the story of wolf reintroduction in the West, but this podcast contains a lot of surprises – wild historical details from the people who were there, unsung partners in the project, as well as new threats wolves are facing,” Druzin said. “But as you’ll hear in the podcast, it’s not just history – the story of wolves is still unfolding and they might be in bigger trouble than we think.”

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