In the Company of Wolves: An American Journey

In collaboration with the Rangeland Foundation, the UC Berkeley California Wolf Project will be hosting a special screening on October 19th of the film In the Company of Wolves: An American Journey. This event is free and open to the public.

Created by Susan Kucera and Rangeland Productions, the film is narrated by Academy Award winner Jeff Bridges. The film was screened earlier this summer at the Santa Monica Film Center with a Q&A panel featuring Jim and Mary Rickert of Siskiyou County's Prather Ranch. The film explores the complex relationship between people and the natural world, and the ways our interactions with wolves and other wild and domesticated animals have shaped our ideas, our folklore, and our sense of nationhood. In doing so, it reveals how these relationships have influenced the course of American history and continue to shape how we understand the landscape we share.

Come by before the screening to view a pop-up photography exhibit Wolves of California by conservation storyteller Malia Byrtus. The exhibit documents the realities of wolf recolonization in California through the work of the UC Berkeley California Wolf Project in partnership with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, including never-before-seen DSLR camera trap photographs of the Whaleback pack. With photos taken from the field, agricultural working lands, and the lab, together they offer multiple views of a species returning to California—and of the science, people, and decisions shaping what happens next.