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The history of wolves in Yellowstone includes the extirpation, absence and reintroduction of wild populations of the gray wolf (Canis lupus) to Yellowstone National Park and the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. When the park was created in 1872, wolf populations were already in decline in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho.
Druid Peak is notable for its role in the reintroduction of Wolves into Yellowstone. Rose Creek which flows west from the northern slope of Druid Peak was the site of one of the release pens for the January 1995 release of wolves, the pack to be known as the Rose Creek pack.
926F (Spitfire) (April 2011 – November 2018) was a wild wolf popular with visitors of Yellowstone National Park.She was killed about a mile outside the park boundary by a hunter when she crossed from the park into Montana, where the hunting of wolves was legal.
The wolves’ presence played a vital role in increasing the health and diversity of Yellowstone’s wildlife, though they can be tough for park visitors to spot. kwiktor / iStock Yellowstone volcano
In recent years, viral videos online have spun new tales about the wolf, attributing immense ecological changes to the canine. Scientists debunk myth that Yellowstone wolves changed entire ...
Yellowstone's oldest wolf made headlines last month when the 11-year-old wolf did something that hasn't been done before - she gave birth to her tenth litter of pups! Keith Merrill of National ...
Wolf #10, a male, in the Rose Creek acclimation pen, Yellowstone National Park. Wolf reintroduction involves the reintroduction of a portion of grey wolves in areas where native wolves have been extirpated. More than 30 subspecies of Canis lupus have been recognized, and grey wolves, as colloquially understood, comprise nondomestic/feral ...
O-Six (named after the year of her birth). [3] was for several years [2010 - 2012] the dominant breeding female of the Lamar Canyon pack in Yellowstone National Park.Born in 2006 in the Agate Creek pack to Agate Creek Wolves #113M (born a Chief Joseph Wolf in 1997) and Wolf #472F (born a Druid Peak wolf in 2000), [4] [5] [6] she was principally known by the year of her birth. [7]