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Massive Wolf Kill Disrupts Long-Running Yellowstone Park Study

Document Type

Article

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Science

Volume

375

Issue

6580

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

First Page

482

Last Page

482

Publication Date

2-4-2022

Abstract

Hunters are killing gray wolves in the northern Rocky Mountains in numbers not seen since the animals were driven to near extinction in the continental United States in the 20th century. The killing of more than 500 wolves in Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming in recent months—including nearly 20% of the wolves that sometimes range outside of Yellowstone National Park—threatens to undermine a decades-old effort to restore the predators to the landscape and disrupt a long-term Yellowstone research project that has produced influential findings on how wolves help shape ecosystems. Researchers and conservation groups are calling on government officials to rethink the hunts, which have eliminated about 16% of the wolves living in the three states.

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