Val Geist was an authority on wildlife in North America and should be a household name, but he refused to bend to mainstream media and so-called conservation experts who bristled at his belief that wolves are not endangered and must be managed like all predators. Mr. Geist was a Canadian biologist and professor emeritus at the University of Calgary, but he spent as much or time in the wilderness as he did in the classroom. When he wasn’t teaching or learning, he was writing, He wa...