Wolf packs also chase health adult animals and kill them.
Thanks for the info. I got the impression that there were a few areas where the aspen survived and are now regrowing since the wolves are discouraging the elk from eating them.
In a totally separate vein, I have encountered stories about the spread of a “mad cow” type of illness in elk in the northern middle west, and perhaps moving eastward. I remember the movie about the scientist who lived with wolves in the arctic and discovered that they ate a lot of small rodents, and when they killed caribou, it was generally ones that were sick with something. Perhaps the wolves are needed to reduce the population of sick elk, before we eat them and get a fatal brain illness.
From most all evidence presently available, the only clear beneficiary of the wolf “reintroduction” programs turns out to be wolf program personnel.
We neither surprised nor amused.
Wolf packs also chase health adult animals and kill them.
Sorry. Colorado has lots of Aspen trees and not lots of wolves ( yet ).
Elk prefer to eat grass and not tree bark. We have been watching elk herds for many decades. Some one is misleading you about ‘tree eating elk.’
There are things that do kill Aspen trees, but elk are not eating whole forests of Aspen trees.
” I got the impression that there were a few areas where the aspen survived and are now regrowing since the wolves are discouraging the elk from eating them.”