Aspen: Yes, Grandpa, I know that some people think that it was a mistake to bring the gray wolves back. I also learned about the gray wolves from Mrs. Baxter when I was in fifth grade. Some ranchers fear for their cattle and sheep, and some hunters think that there will not be enough elk or deer left to hunt.

Let me get this right … Mrs. Baxter taught us: “The reintroduction of the gray wolves ranks symbolically among the most important acts of wildlife conservation in the 20th century.”

It took me awhile to understand the word symbolically. Here is something that Mrs. Baxter read to us to help us to understand—it helped me a lot. It is part of another legend from Chief Dan George.

If you talk to the animals,
they will talk with you.
and you will know each other.

If you do not talk to them,
you will not know them,
and what you do not know
you will fear.

What one fears
one destroys.