Living With Wolves, Jim And Jamie Dutcher

In 1990, Jim was given captive pups and was allowed a permit to set up a 25 Acre Wolf observation camp in the Sawtooth Mountains in Idaho, where he stayed, later joined by his wife Jamie Dutcher, until 1996; raising and documenting the captive pack of wolves and their socializing behavior. The wolves, which became known as the "Sawtooth Pack" were later sold to the Wolf Education and Research Center,(a non-profit organization he founded) in conjunction with the Native American Nez Perce and moved to northern Idaho.
Jim made several films about the Sawtooth pack and wrote many books. The Sawtooth Pack became famous worldwide and very popular with the public.
Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and cinematographer Jim Dutcher began producing documentary films in the 1960s. His early experience with a camera were spent underwater on the Florida coast. In 1985, "Water, Birth, the Planet Earth" was his first television film, initiated a career spent with animals that range from tiny hatching sea turtles to one of the top ranking predators on the continent, the wolf. Jim's extraordinary camera work and the trust he gains from his subjects have led audiences into places never before filmed: inside beaver lodges, down burrows to peek at newborn wolf pups, and into the secret life of a mother mountain lion as she cares for her newborn kittens. His work includes the National Geographic special, "A Rocky Mountain Beaver Pond" and ABC World of Discovery's two highest rated films, "Cougar: Ghost of the Rockies" and "Wolf: Return of a Legend", winner of an Emmy Award for "Outstanding Television Documentary."
Together, Jim and his wife Jamie Dutcher won two Primetime Emmy Awards for their wildlife documentary, "Wolves at Our Door," and have been interviewed extensively on numerous television and radio programs and in print articles, in both the United States and Europe. Their most recent film and book, "Living with Wolves," continues the story of the Sawtooth Pack that became part of their lives.