Few animals symbolize wild interconnectedness quite like wolves, whose return helped reveal just how tightly ecosystems are woven together.
Somewhere in the northern Rockies, a GPS-collared gray wolf trots along a logging road at 2 a.m., covering ground efficiently ...
The question of how many wolves a region can sustain without tipping the balance against prey herds, livestock operations, and the wolves themselves has no clean answer. Since the federal government ...
The wolves arrived in May of last year, just days after Paul Roen had driven his cattle back up to their summer pasture in Northern California’s Sierra Valley. He started finding the bleeding bodies ...
Across the planet, islands are homes to species of animals that cannot be found anywhere else. Isolated from the mainland, these species become genetically different from close relatives simply ...
Ranchers Jay and Chyenne Smith raise Black Angus cattle near the tiny town of Carmen, Idaho. The ranch is located just over the ridge from one of the original sites of wolf reintroduction, and the ...
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