The Wyoming section of Yellowstone National Park, where wolves had been missing for quite some time, received fourteen of the animals in 1995 via truck and sled. Soon after, others did the same.
From there, a legend has developed based on preliminary studies that the wolf population surged, decimating the 17,000 elk herds in the park through predation.
Reducing grazing and restoring and expanding grasslands, woodlands, and other species was thought to have been a widespread effect known as a trophic cascade, But every once in a while,
brought about by the wolves' reintroduction and predatory supremacy.
The tremendous change that occurred in Yellowstone as a result of the wolf reintroduction is now an example for people all around the world on how to restore ecological harmony.
aspen and willow stands are flourishing once again. However, the extensive alteration of the terrain caused by elk herds' grazing and trampling over many decades means that considerable portions of the country are still scarred and may never fully recover.
To rephrase, wolf packs are not a silver bullet for ecological restoration.
“I would say it’s exaggerated, greatly exaggerated,” stated Thomas Hobbs, a professor of natural resource ecology at Colorado State University.
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