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Lopez carrying a sedated eight-year-old female wolf in Nelchina Basin, Alaska, in March 1976. Field biologist Robert Stephenson is behind Lopez, who is conducting research for
Of Wolves and Men
. (Photo courtesy of Craig Lofstedt.)

Lopez at an undisturbed Anasazi ruin on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon while on a 1982 expedition with anthropologists Robert Euler and Trinkle Jones. (Photo courtesy of Robert Euler.)

Lopez on the upper Boro River in Botswana in 1987. The group of seven with whom he was traveling was attacked by this wounded male hippo. While others attempted to maneuver their boats around the highly territorial animal, Lopez (left) and his friend Ben (right) kept the hippo distracted on the opposite side of the river. (Photo courtesy of Michele Chapman and Margaret Stemp.)

Lopez (left) in a sterile clean suit, with then-Senator Al Gore (right) at a drilling site for ice cores at 6,000 feet on Newell Glacier in the Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica, in November 1988. Gore traveled to this remote site to acquaint himself with ice-core drilling technology and the field processing of uncontaminated sections of ice core, which would later provide data for the study of global climate change.

Lopez at camp about twenty kilometers from the South Pole during an expedition to collect snow samples in Antarctica in 1988. The temperature was -29°F.

Lopez in situ with a sixty-eight-pound meteorite on the Polar Plateau at about 88° south in December 1998. Lopez and the five meteoriticists he was traveling with established an unheated field camp at Graves Nunataks, about 120 miles from the South Pole. During their field season, the group found and collected 192 meteorites.

Lopez (left) with expedition leader John Schutt in the Transantarctic Mountains in December 1998, at the start of a forty-five-day field season, picking out a route across a crevasse field to Graves Nunataks, the expedition’s destination.

Left to right: Juanita Pahdopony of Comanche Nation College; Comanche tribal chairman Wallace Coffey; Lopez; and Kim Winkelman, president of Comanche Nation College, at a reconciliation ceremony between Texas Tech University and the Comanche Nation at the Comanche tribal headquarters in Lawton, Oklahoma, in September 2007.

Lopez (left) with Archbishop Desmond Tutu (right) at the second Quest for Global Healing conference in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia, in May 2006.

Lopez with his wife, Debra Gwartney, and his stepdaughters. Left to right: Amanda, Mary, Stephanie, Debra, Mollie, and Barry, at Stephanie’s home in Alford, Massachusetts, on the occasion of her graduation as an Ada Comstock Scholar from Smith College, in 2010. (Photo courtesy of Otis Lougheed.)

Lopez and Debra with their grandchildren, Ezabelle and Owen Knight, at the couple’s home on the west slope of Oregon’s Cascade Mountains in 2011. (Photo courtesy of Amanda Woodruff.)

Lopez with his grandson, Owen Knight, at the USS Arizona Memorial, in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in 2012. (Photo courtesy of Debra Gwartney.)