The story of wolves in Yellowstone National Park is one of the most successful—and scrutinized—wildlife restoration projects in history. Since their reintroduction in 1995, they have fundamentally ...
Over the last three decades, Yellowstone National Park has undergone an ecological cascade. As elk numbers fell, aspen and willow trees thrived. This, in turn, allowed beaver numbers to increase, ...
A critique from a team led by Utah State University ecologist Dan MacNulty and published in Forest Ecology and Management has prompted a formal correction to a high-profile study on aspen recovery ...
An ecological milestone has been unveiled at Yellowstone National Park following the finding of a new generation of overstory aspen trees for the first time in 80 years. This hopeful rebalance of the ...
A third round of gray wolves expected to be reintroduced into the state this winter won’t be coming to Colorado after all, ...
A new peer-reviewed study reports that claims of a “world-leading” trophic cascade in Yellowstone National Park are not supported, citing problems with the methods used in earlier research. A newly pu ...
Thirty years ago, park rangers reintroduced grey wolves into Yellowstone National Park. They wanted to restore the ecosystem and get the elk... How the wolf changed Yellowstone 30 years after ...
In Yellowstone National Park — where gray wolves were reintroduced starting in 1995 — researchers have gone back and forth on whether the restoration of wolves has impacted the ecosystem. The idea is ...
At the age of 11 years, 9 months, Wolf 1090F has earned the title of the oldest living wolf in Yellowstone, which is ...
The decision to reintroduce gray wolves in Colorado will be decided by the people, and both sides of the issue say the decision will impact the entire country. “Only in 2020, the weird year that we ...
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