Wolf from Park’s most remote pack ends up near Pine Ridge, South Dakota-
The third wolf from the Yellowstone Park area over the years to disperse all the way to South Dakota has been found dead. The big male wolf was hit by an auto along U.S. Highway 18. Over the last decade two other [...]
Continue Reading →By © Kathie Lynch. March 16, 2012
With eligible wolf bachelors and bachelorettes looking for love (and one alpha male caught in the act of roaming!), the February breeding season was a howling success in Yellowstone’s Northern Range.
During the last half of February, watchers observed 13 ties (matings) involving wolves from the Blacktail Plateau, [...]
Continue Reading →Wolf watching in Yellowstone over the winter holidays far surpassed my expectations. In fact, it turned out to be some of the best ever, at least in terms of numbers. The fact that the Mollie’s pack of 19 wolves unexpectedly turned up in the Northern Range definitely helped!
Mollie’s pack is named after Mollie Beattie, [...]
Continue Reading →With the arrival of the first wolf in California since the 1920s, no doubt the California Department of Game and Fish is receiving many comments from the public. The quality of this support, opposition and advice probably varies all over the map (the maps in our heads).
Norman Bishop, who played a key role as [...]
Continue Reading →Dr. William Ripple and colleague issue report that sees Park ecology improved in almost all ways-
Many of the people supporting wolf restoration to Yellowstone Park and the Rocky Mountains did so mostly on the basis of the favorable ecological changes expected, not because they were particularly enchanted with wolves. The article by Drs. Ripple [...]
Continue Reading →Wolf 692f illegally shot outside Yellowstone Park-
While there is no evidence any Yellowstone Park wolves have been killed inside the Park, in November a dispersed member of the Blacktail pack was shot near Gardiner, MT outside the Park about 4 weeks after the legal hunting in that zone closed.
Wolf 692F, who wore a [...]
Continue Reading →Beyond 4 wolves in a chase, success falls because of “free riders-”
The idea that big wolf packs menace elk more than small ones when it comes to killing them just isn’t so according to a new study of Yellowstone wolves. Researchers found that hunting success falls beyond 4 wolves not because wolves get in [...]
Continue Reading →Autumn 2011-
Golden aspens and cottonwoods, plus a dusting of early snow, set the lovely autumn scene in Yellowstone, giving a hint of winter to come. As the grizzlies head up to the high country to fatten up on white bark pine nuts before hibernation, bugling elk stream back into the valleys, coming down from [...]
Continue Reading →Some wolves hunted and lived after severe injuries-
Sue Ware, a paleopathologist, has examined the skeletons of about 160 Park wolves, and found numerous injuries and reinjuries, but she says Park are wolves healthier on the whole than others she has studied.
Continue Reading →Quota of three wolves is filled-
Montana wolf hunters have killed the small quota of just 3 wolves immediately north of Yellowstone Park, so the wolf hunt there is now closed. It is subunit 313-316 of wolf management unit 390.
The quota next to the Park was set low because it is bad public relations [...]
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