Birds gain habitat, smaller mammals benefit, and even plant communities can recover.

Aspen trees have seen better days, but gray wolves are helping them out. Yellowstone National Park isn't just home to geysers like Old Faithful. There's also plenty of wildlife, from the Yellowstone ...

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Yellowstone National Park is often told as a story of recovery. Wolves returned and then elk changed their behavior. Willows and aspens then rebounded and rivers, it is said, changed course. The ...

Three decades after wolves were reintroduced in Yellowstone National Park, aspen stands are recovering, a new analysis suggests. Published in Forest Ecology and Management, the study looks at what ...

For years, Yellowstone's wolf reintroduction has been held up as a classic case of predators transforming a landscape. But as Science Daily details, a new review of the evidence says one of the ...

A critique from a team led by Utah State University ecologist Dan MacNulty and published in Forest Ecology and Management has prompted a formal correction to a high-profile study on aspen recovery ...

In Yellowstone National Park — where gray wolves were reintroduced starting in 1995 — researchers have gone back and forth on whether the restoration of wolves has impacted the ecosystem. The idea is ...