To: Twotone
wolves were inflicting on big game populations.
Since the introduction of wolves into Yellowstone park in 1998, their 17,000 elk herd is now down to approx. 4,900. Here's an interesting statement from a National Park Biologist:
"In a way it’s good news,” said Doug Smith, a Yellowstone National Park biologist. “We think we have a fairly stable elk herd.”
16 posted on
05/26/2017 12:44:50 PM PDT by
Hot Tabasco
(If a cow ever got the chance, heÂ’d eat you and everyone you ever cared about.)
To: Hot Tabasco
Read Alston Chase's
Playing God in Yellowstone, which has been pretty much completely vindicated by history in the forty years since it was written.
In the decade following its publication, Park scientists attacked the book, one contention of which was that the elk population had pretty much entirely destroyed the Yellowstone and surrounding ecosystem. Now they freely admit that the elk herd was far too large, and drove a large number of both plant and animal species to extinction in the area.
20 posted on
05/26/2017 12:53:40 PM PDT by
FredZarguna
(And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
To: Hot Tabasco; All
"In a way it’s good news,” said Doug Smith, a Yellowstone National Park biologist. “We think we have a fairly stable elk herd.”
Sounds like this a&%shat thinks a smaller herd is a more stable herd? So what's the end game of that, a herd of 1?
22 posted on
05/26/2017 12:58:13 PM PDT by
notdownwidems
(Washington D.C. has become the enemy of free people everywhere!)
To: Hot Tabasco
"In a way it’s good news,” said Doug Smith, a Yellowstone National Park biologist. “We think we have a fairly stable elk herd.” I would like to hear him explain how a herd of 17,000 elk was unstable.
27 posted on
05/26/2017 1:35:22 PM PDT by
TigersEye
(Make up my mind, NBC,CBS,CNN,ABC. What are the "facts" today?)
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