Riverside Discovery Center announced Wednesday that its two female swan cygnets have gone to Zoo Idaho in Pocatello, Idaho, as part of the Oregon Trumpeter Swan Restoration Project.
POWELL — When Bill Long founded the Wyoming Wetlands Society in 1986, he did so as a precaution; “in case the trumpeter swan population in Yellowstone crashed,” he said.
Trumpeter swans in Yellowstone National Park began declining in the early 1960s, and by 2010 (24 years after Long started the nonprofit organization), only three birds were observed park-wide, according
When Bill Long founded the Wyoming Wetlands Society in 1986, he did so as a precaution; “in case the trumpeter swan population in Yellowstone crashed,” he said. Trumpeter swans in …