Large carnivores are both clashing and coexisting in the western United States. Although wolves dominate cougars and steal ...
In Yellowstone, cougars coexist with wolves by changing what they eat and where they hunt, minimizing conflict driven largely by prey theft.
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, ...
A look at how wolf policy shifted from eradication to protection, and why wolf conflict is rising again across the West. The ...
The story of wolves in Yellowstone National Park is one of the most successful—and scrutinized—wildlife restoration projects ...
A critique from a team led by Utah State University ecologist Dan MacNulty and published in Forest Ecology and Management has ...
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 ...
These rare kills in Washington State have biologists searching for answers. “Everyone always assumes wolves have the upper ...
A new study has found that cougars are making slight changes to their diets in order to avoid encounters with wolves. In ...
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