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The history of wolves in Yellowstone includes the extirpation, absence and reintroduction of wild populations of the gray wolf (Canis lupus) to Yellowstone National Park and the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. When the park was created in 1872, wolf populations were already in decline in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho.
Wolf #10, a male, in the Rose Creek acclimation pen, Yellowstone National Park. Wolf reintroduction involves the reintroduction of a portion of grey wolves in areas where native wolves have been extirpated. More than 30 subspecies of Canis lupus have been recognized, and grey wolves, as colloquially understood, comprise nondomestic/feral ...
The wolves’ presence played a vital role in increasing the health and diversity of Yellowstone’s wildlife, though they can be tough for park visitors to spot. kwiktor / iStock Yellowstone volcano
926F (Spitfire) (April 2011 – November 2018) was a wild wolf popular with visitors of Yellowstone National Park.She was killed about a mile outside the park boundary by a hunter when she crossed from the park into Montana, where the hunting of wolves was legal.
The Yellowstone Wolf Project started in 1995 and since it's become one of the most detailed studies of wolves the world. They also focus on studying the day-to-day life and social interactions of ...
In recent years, viral videos online have spun new tales about the wolf, attributing immense ecological changes to the canine. Scientists debunk myth that Yellowstone wolves changed entire ...
A reintroduced wolf in Yellowstone National Park. Starting in 1914, to protect elk populations, the U.S. Congress appropriated funds to be used for "destroying wolves, prairie dogs, and other animals injurious to agriculture and animal husbandry" on public lands. Park Service hunters carried out these orders, and by 1926 they had killed 136 wolves.
O-Six (named after the year of her birth). [3] was for several years [2010 - 2012] the dominant breeding female of the Lamar Canyon pack in Yellowstone National Park.Born in 2006 in the Agate Creek pack to Agate Creek Wolves #113M (born a Chief Joseph Wolf in 1997) and Wolf #472F (born a Druid Peak wolf in 2000), [4] [5] [6] she was principally known by the year of her birth. [7]