Yellowstone National Park

wolves (Canis lupus), hence predators, into Yellowstone National Park to restore the ecosystem health. Many are the ecological interpretations of wolves’ function when it comes to the Northern Rockies ecosystem as research and scientists have been documenting their overall impact for the last few decades. Firstly, a detailed description of Gray wolves’ characteristics will be provided. Secondly, the specific case of their reintroduction into Yellowstone will be analysed, focusing on the impact…

Wolves Clayton Hull-Crew wrote an editorial on the US-Represented website reflecting on the reintroduction of wolves into the Yellowstone National Park. Hull-Crew states that the wolves have been responsible for a major ecological shift beginning at the top of the food chain, slowly making its way to the bottom, effecting everything from beaver dams to river bed erosion. Hull-Crew claims that the wolves have created what is called a “Trophic Cascade” of events. A Trophic cascade is, “an…

occurrence in forested areas, especially during hot and dry weather conditions or due to lightning strikes. In the summer of 1988, for example, 42 instances of forest fires were caused by lightning strikes in the Yellowstone National Park which resulted in the burning of about 793,880 acres of the park, loss of 300 large mammals (elks, bison, deer and moose), and costed over $120 million in firefighting efforts…

bear in a National Park is only 1 out of 2.1 million. Even though bears seem like a daunting threat to campers and tourist bears are fairly harmless to the majority. Therefore, bears should not be removed from National Parks because the parks not only provide food storage, but there are no recorded deaths by bears in Yosemite park, and the bears help disperse berry seeds. One reason bears should not be removed from National Parks is that they store away food in metal lockers around the park. For…

short-term fear during a chase or when a predator is about to pounce on them. We also know fear can cause a population to not thrive and the number of births to decrease and death rate to increase. A kind of experiment was done when the Yellowstone National Park exterminated wolves for 70 years and then slowly…

The following day they went to Snow King Mountain and took a ski lift to the top of the mountain. They spent a few days in Jackson shopping at their selection of little shops. Then they stayed at a ranch motel between Jackson and Yellowstone. On their visit to Yellowstone they saw old faithful and the…

Wolves Were Never Needed Cyson Orr Madison High School Wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park in 1995 to help regulate the deer, elk, and bison herds. Little did we know, they were going to do much more than just regulate them. The wolf population has rapidly grown and spread across the states, greatly affecting local, and afar ecosystems and the populations of our deer and elk herds. The reintroduction of this species was a big mistake, and i have numerous examples here to show…

The United States Forest Service was created at the turn of the twentieth century to help ensure the forest and lands of the US were taken care of. This was the first time leaders were chosen because of their knowledge of nature instead of some bureaucracy non sense. The Forest Service was staffed with university educated foresters chosen because of their expertise of the forest. Before the US Forest Service was formed politicians managed the land that belonged to the government and this was…

exists to play a key role in the landscape composition. A species, such as a wolf, is considered a “strongly interactive species” when its absence leads to significant ecosystem changes. This is evident when gray wolves were removed from Yellowstone National Park. These types of changes include structural or compositional modifications, alterations in import and export of nutrients, loss of resilience to disturbance, and decreases in native species diversity (Paine). Keystones are species whose…

Although John Taylor and Howling Wolfs may be the most known illustration of what happened that day there are more people that did their own illustrations. The other picture I found was made by John Howland and then there was another one by James Taylor. These show the more than one point of view of the peace treaty meeting. Between the two pictures I feel as John Taylors seems more naturalistic. This is because he shaded more so it look more natural and is closer to the natural world than…