A photographer’s search for the elusive predator turns into a deeper discovery about family, survival, and the fragile balance between the wild and human worlds.

In 2020, by just 56,986 votes, Colorado became the first state where voters—not wildlife agencies—mandated the reintroduction of gray wolves. That razor-thin margin set in motion the wolf’s historic return to Colorado. Today the wolf is back on the landscape and back in the spotlight and again at the center of a long-running conflict that ended badly for wolves last time - have we learned enough to give them another chance.