Wolf Attack in Idaho

[ScottyP]

I spoke with a ranger that studies wolves while in Yellowstone last month. The northern elk herd has been artificially high for years untill wolves came back. The winter range could not support all the animals so they were leaving the park in the winter and many would be harvested. Now that there are less to harvest, the hunters in Montana are pissed. The elk without the wolves could sit around the open valleys and eat the willows (as catman mentioned). Now that the wolves are back, the elk are on the move and in the trees more, so they are not seen in the numbers we used to see them in a few years ago. As the ranger put it, the elk are now in the backcountry being elk.
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