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The apex predators, restored to the park in 1995, appear to be keeping the local population of plant-eating elk in check, ...
Aspen trees have seen better days, but gray wolves are helping them out. Yellowstone National Park isn't just home to geysers ...
Aspen forests help slow the spread of wildfires and could serve as fire breaks in Colorado and other southwestern states, ...
The return of wolves and other predators to Yellowstone has reduced elk browsing, allowing aspen trees to grow back for the first time in decades.
For the first time in 80 years, a new generation of fully-fledged aspen trees has grown in Yellowstone’s northern range. According to a new study, the reason for the success is thanks to the wolves ...
Matt Harris, a forest fire researcher at Western and lead-author of the study, says that two decades of data on fires across four states paints a clear picture that aspen trees have a natural ...
The restoration of gray wolves in Yellowstone National Park has helped revive an aspen tree population unique to the region, a new study has found. Quaking aspen, one of the few deciduous tree ...