Our first meeting with Dr. Mech occurred by chance in 1996 when one of our trip leaders - Steve Lybeck, while on his way home from guiding Great Canadian Wilderness trips on the Thelon - inadvertently ran into Dr. L. David Mech on the flight south out of Yellowknife. It turns out that Mech was also on his way home from a month spent at his famed wolf site on Elsmere Island. Well, after a share of knowledge during some lengthy phone calls over the next year, one thing led to another - and in August, 1997 - we finally convinced Dr. Mech to come to scout out our special tundra wolf site in the Thelon country. Well - to make a long story short - Dave absolutely loved it! He returned again in 1998 for a wolf viewing study trip with the International Wolf Center.

 Dave Mech wrote this about his trips with us...