"Painter et al. claim that large-carnivore recovery in Yellowstone National Park has produced a strong trophic cascade ...
Few animals symbolize wild interconnectedness quite like wolves, whose return helped reveal just how tightly ecosystems are woven together.
One of the most celebrated claims about Yellowstone’s wolves is facing a major challenge. Scientists say the study behind the famous trophic cascade story relied on flawed methods that overstated the ...
Yellowstone’s wolf reintroduction has often been described as one of conservation’s clearest trophic-cascade success stories.
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 ...
Thirty years after gray wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone, the verdict is more nuanced than the popular legend. The ...
Wyoming wolves are stout compared to some other Lower 48 subpopulations, and the reason why they tend to run hefty is ...
In Yellowstone’s wild chess match between wolves and cougars, it turns out the real power play is theft. After tracking nearly a decade of GPS data and thousands of kill sites, researchers found that ...