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The packs we cared for became ambassadors for an entire generation.
Now it's the world's turn to protect the future.
For more than three decades, we cared for the Owyhee Pack and the Sawtooth Pack—Wolves of the Nez Perce—giving families, students, and the public a rare opportunity to experience wolves up close. Though the packs have passed, their legacy lives on. Our mission continues through education, research, publishing, and the defense of wolves and other wild carnivores around the world.
Education. Conservation. Legacy.
Turning more than three decades of fieldwork into classrooms, publications, and conservation partnerships—so the next generation inherits a world where predators and people thrive side by side.
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From caretakers of the Sawtooth and Owyhee packs to mobile classrooms and coexistence trainings — the work has never paused.
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Reporting, educators and field partnerships across North America, South America and Europe — wherever wild carnivores meet people.
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From the Sawtooth pack to classrooms across three continents.
We were founded around one iconic group of wolves — the Sawtooth Pack: Wolves of the Nez Perce — who became synonymous with the wolf reintroduction movement in America. The Elder Eight and the three pups that followed lived on a 300-acre sanctuary in north central Idaho, where over 100,000 visitors encountered wolves not as headlines or symbols, but as living ambassadors.
That legacy gave us the experience to later become home to the Owyhee Pack — five wolves rescued after the death of a private owner in southern Idaho, and re-named by the Nez Perce: Kú·cuc, Himtú·u·qin, Le·qéy·le·qey, Xáy·xay·x, Miyó·o·xat.
When Kú·cuc, the last of the Owyhee Pack, passed in 2020, the enclosure chapter closed. The mission did not. Today the Center runs Passport to Wildlife online, publishes the C3 Journal, and is finishing the Great Predator Debate trilogy — the long version of everything those two packs taught us.
1996 — 2013
The Sawtooth Pack
2008 — 2020
The Owyhee Pack
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