Tag: Yellowstone

Cougars in the United States have been contracting the same bacteria that causes the disease that killed a number of the people throughout the world in the mid-14th century, the...

Douglas Smith and his colleagues had been working on a two-decade-long project tracking gray wolf activity in Yellowstone when he began to notice something strange that seemed counterintuitive to knowledge...

The Center for Biological Diversity and the Sierra Club filed a lawsuit in late March in federal court against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S. Forest Service,...

The Wyoming Chapter of The Wildlife Society named Hank Edwards professional of the year for his contributions of disease research to the wildlife field. This is the second time Edwards,...

Attics don’t just provide a place to stash old record collections and keepsakes. In Yellowstone National Park, they provide the perfect place for female bats to weather cold summers, and...

Bison aren’t simply grazing as they move across the meadows of Yellowstone National Park. They are engineering the environment, manipulating the forage on the landscape and changing the way spring...

“Every year I sit alone with a wolf,” Douglas Smith wrote. “The wolf doesn’t agree to this, as I catch it as part of a research program on wolves in...

Decades of records of grizzly bears preying on cattle and other livestock on grazing land in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem have revealed some key ways to limit livestock losses.  “Conflicts...

When hydrologist Robert Beschta went to Yellowstone National Park, he was looking for the effects that elk (Cervus canadensis) were having on river systems as they browsed down willows on...

When gray wolves (Canis lupus) were reintroduced in Yellowstone National Park in 1995, nobody could have predicted the sweeping changes they would help bring to the ecosystem, from reducing elk...