“In Alpha Female, April Christofferson has penned a shrewd, sensitive and cautionary tale about the environment and our place within it ... compulsively readable and impossible to put down.”

--Jon Land, author of STRONG JUSTICE

“Christofferson’s love of the wild shines through.”

--Publishers Weekly

Welcome, and thank you for visiting my website!

I've been thrilled to hear from so many of you who have written to tell me you enjoyed Alpha Female and to express your enthusiasm for Yellowstone--its incredible beauty and mystery--as well as your concerns regarding the challenges that Yellowstone and other wilderness areas face today.

I feel so blessed to live where I do--a land of such immense beauty, filled with wildlife and excitement. It's easy to understand why I care so deeply about protecting it. But I believe with all my heart that wilderness and wild places are important to each and every one of us, regardless of where we call home. I spend a great deal of time in Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks, and I witness continually the effect that these sacred places have on visitors from all over the world. So please join me in the fight to protect them. For once we denigrate them, once we allow animals like the gray wolf, the wild bison, the grizzly bear, or the wolverine to disappear from the landscape, we may never be able to recover them. And as Chief Seattle said, "What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of spirit." The same holds true for our wild places.

Thank you for reading my work, thank you for sharing your thoughts about it, and thank you for caring--for it's only through love and through caring that we can, and will, make a difference.

For all that's wild,

April

Update:

As of June 2010, I am inching ever closer to finishing my next book, Trapped, which once more features backcountry ranger Will McCarroll and Judge Annie Peacock. Trapped is set in Glacier National Park. I am very excited about this book, and the opportunity not only to introduce many of you to Montana's wild and wonderful "Crown of the Continent," but also to an animal that, for me, truly epitomizes wilderness—the wolverine. I’ll be sure to post a publishing date once it’s set.

To listen to April’s interview on Montana Public Radio’s “The Write Question” please click here.

For a peek at April's 2007 Yellowstone Discovery article about the wolverine click here.

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