AR-News: (US DC) New Predator in Yellowstone Reshapes Park's Entire Ecosystem

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

Reintroduction of Gray Wolves Creates Dangers For Elk but Opportunities for 
Other Animals 
By Guy Gugliotta
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, January 26, 2004; Page A08 
"For 70 years, the elk congregated next to the rivers, eating the 
vegetation," said Oregon State University forest ecologist William Ripple, co-author of a 
study on the cottonwood recovery in the park. "They don't do that anymore." 
Nine years have elapsed since the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service imported 15 
gray wolves from Canada to colonize Yellowstone, wolfless since 1926, when 
hunters finished exterminating them as unwelcome pests and dangerous predators. 

The reintroduction of gray wolves to Yellowstone National Park has meant 
fewer elk in the park but more beavers, trout and other animals. (National Park 
Service) 




full story:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47284-2004Jan25.html



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