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The United States Fish and Wildlife Service provides weekly updates on the wolves of the Rocky Mountain region including wolves of Yellowstone. [18] This site has stated that at the end of 2011 there was at least 98 wolves in ten packs and two loner wolves in the park.
A bull elk grazes in Gibbon Meadows in the west-central portion of the park. An elk grazes with a bison in the park. There are at least 67 species of mammals known to live within Yellowstone National Park, a 2,219,791 acres (898,318 ha) [1] protected area in the Rocky Mountains of Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho.
Yellowstone is widely considered to be the finest megafauna wildlife habitat in the lower 48 states. There are almost 60 species of mammals in the park, including the Rocky Mountain wolf , coyote , the Canadian lynx , cougars , and black and grizzly bears . [ 11 ]
For Yellowstone's dedicated wildlife watchers, a good look or photo of a wolf, grizzly — or especially an elusive wolverine or lynx — makes for a good day in the field. A glimpse of the white ...
Yellowstone volcano. While the wildlife and panoramic vistas are a huge draw for visitors to Yellowstone, so too are the spectacular 10,000 geothermal features within the park.
The Yellowstone cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii bouvieri) inhabits the Yellowstone River drainage from the headwaters to Yellowstone Lake north to the park boundary at Gardiner, MT to include the Lamar River drainage. It has been widely stocked in park lakes previously barren of fish.