More proof, that humans mismanage wildlife! Same story with elk… farmers are asking idaho officials to kill elk… Oh wait…Had they not killed Yellowstones strongest wolf packs…. Perhaps they wouldnt have this issue! YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK – Up to an estimated 900 bison will be slaughtered this winter. The culling plan calls for the majority of the bison targeted …
Wolves in a Tangled Bank | Cristina Eisenberg
The wolves’ return to Yellowstone and the subsequent recovery of plants that elk had been eating to death in their absence has become one the most popularized and beloved ecological tales. By the 1920s humans had misguidedly wiped out most of the wolves in North America, thinking that the only good wolf was a dead one. Without wolves preying on …
20 years after reintroduction, Yellowstone wolves find balance
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK – For six months every two years, Kirsty Peake and her husband move from the United Kingdom to Montana for one reason: to spend the winter watching wolves. “We never come in the summer; there are too many people,” she said while standing next to her spotting scope near Tower Junction on a relatively warm morning – …
Slideshow: Yellowstone wolves, 20 years later
In January of 1995, the U.S. Department of the Interior introduced gray wolves into Yellowstone National Park in an effort to establish a population of wolves in what was once the animal’s native habitat. via Slideshow: Yellowstone wolves, 20 years later.