Reintroduction of Wolves to Yellowstone National Park: History, Values and Ecosystem Restoration

Reintroduction of Top-Order Predators

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 92-125

  Smith, Douglas W ^a   Bangs, Edward E ^b  

^a YELLOWSTONE CENTER FOR RESOURCES   (United States)

^b US Fish and Wildlife Service   (United States)

Author keywords

Acclimation crucial part of YNP's soft release strategy for keeping packs intact and minimizing post release movements outside YNP; Effects on scavengers scavengers consuming large proportion of wolf kill; Indirect effects of wolves on vegetation as recorded in other ecosystems; Mule deer, summer prey of wolves migration outside of YNP in winter and avoiding predation pressure; Reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park history, values and ecosystem restoration; Wolf reintroduction remaining controversial livestock depredation and wolves, affecting wild ungulate populations and hunter harvest adjacent to YNP; Wolf cougar interactions rarely observed; Wolf elk relationships controversial aspect of wolf recovery to GYA; Wolves and Endangered Species Act (ESA) of 1973 calling for restoration and US National Park Service policy restoring natural conditions; Wolves, Canis lupus in Yellowstone National Park (YNP)

Indexed keywords

EID: 77249137850     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444312034.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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