The story of Yellowstone National Park and its wolves is a lesson in the consequences of humans meddling with the world's natural order. Wolves that live in temperate grasslands, specifically gray ...

The reintroduction of the gray wolf to Yellowstone National Park in 1995, some 60 years after humans eradicated them, was an experiment that generated controversy around the country. Even those ...

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, ...

Gray wolves were reintroduced in Yellowstone National Park in 1995 to help control the numbers of elk that were eating young trees, and it is finally paying off for quaking aspen. When you purchase ...

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Thirty years ago, park rangers reintroduced grey wolves into Yellowstone National Park. They wanted to restore the ecosystem and get the elk population, which had decimated the plant community, in ...

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As Colorado is immersed in a relatively early stage of bringing wolf packs back to our nature, it’s heartening to remember that the first major wolf recovery effort yielded astonishingly positive, ...

The restoration of gray wolves in Yellowstone National Park has helped revive an aspen tree population unique to the region, a new study has found. Quaking aspen, one of the few deciduous tree species ...

In a new study, a UC Berkeley-led team of biologists observed gray wolves near Yellowstone National Park traveling 20 kilometers or more over rugged, mountainous terrain, with very young pups in tow.