Scientists Warn Yellowstone Wolves Could Be Approaching a Crisis ...

Gray wolves have killed cougars over their prey within the last decade in Yellowstone. The shift in prey selection has allowed cougars and gray wolves to coexist in Yellowstone. Gray wolves and ...

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 ...

On heels of 2021 legislative mandate, Montana hunters and trappers in 2025-26 harvested lowest numbers in a decade.

Wolves usually rely on cooperation to survive. Hunting large prey such as elk typically involves multiple pack members working together to isolate and exhaust an animal. That reality makes one ...

In Yellowstone’s wild chess match between wolves and cougars, it turns out the real power play is theft. After tracking nearly a decade of GPS data and thousands of kill sites, researchers found that ...

A new study shows that interactions between wolves and cougars in Yellowstone National Park are driven by wolves stealing prey killed by cougars and that shifts in cougar diets to smaller prey help ...

The Yellowstone bubble Wolf 1331F’s fate was unusual only in that she made it so far north. When wolves leave the park, they die — often, quickly. Yellowstone’s roughly 100 wolves are among the most ...

For a long time, Yellowstone looked exactly how you’d expect a national park to look: wild, full of animals, and seemingly ...