Yellowstone National Park is huge: 2,221,766 acres or 3,437.5 square miles, over twice the size of the state of Rhode Island. With that much territory, it might seem surprising to find that ...
On Aug. 28, scientists from Washington and Lee University, the National Park Service and the University of Wyoming published research in Science magazine shedding new light on the value of bison ...
A grey wolf prowls through Yellowstone National Park near Mammoth Hot Springs in Montana. A group of 66 wolves was reintroduced to Idaho and Yellowstone in the late 1990s. They now total 2,800 ...
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% ...
Bill Hamilton’s chest freezer probably looks a lot different than yours. While most of us pack ours with groceries, Hamilton stores pounds upon pounds of bison dung in his. Hamilton, a professor of ...
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 ...
When the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reintroduced 14 gray wolves to Yellowstone National Park in 1995, the animals were, in some ways, stepping into a new world. After humans hunted wolves to ...
A study of nine species of large mammals in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem has revealed that their behavioral responses to summer heat were influenced more by the structure of their environments ...
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