A new scientific review challenges the headline-grabbing claim that Yellowstone’s returning wolves triggered one of the strongest trophic cascades on Earth. Researchers found that the reported 1,500% ...

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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... How the wolf changed Yellowstone 30 years after ...

Wolves usually rely on cooperation to survive. Hunting large prey such as elk typically involves multiple pack members ...

This story was originally published by Mountain Journal. Around Crystal Creek, where the road bridges the Lamar River at the fringe of Yellowstone National Park’s Lamar Valley, a grove of aspens has ...

A new study documents the complex interactions between cougars and gray wolves in Yellowstone National Park and finds their “enemies without benefits” relationship is driven by competition: wolves ...

Yellowstone’s wolves die from hunting and trapping outside the park every season, but things seem to be getting worse. From 2009-2020, about 4.3 wolves from Yellowstone were killed legally by hunters ...

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, ...