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Yellowstone is Shooting Paintballs at Wolves and Says It’s for Their Own Good Daniel Modlin
America’s most famous National Park is shooting paintballs at wolves.
It may seem hard to believe but, after all, Yellowstone is an otherworldly place. It’s home to a geyser that miraculously erupts on a timed schedule, hot springs that evoke colors many have never laid eyes on, and vast swaths of lands largely untouched by human hands where wildlife roam free, undisturbed.
Well, sort of.
Wildlife and human interaction within Yellowstone has always been an issue. Littered across the park are signs which read “
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When a wolf is harvested, another wolf probably wonât join the pack because of its social structure, researchers say.
Scientists working in central Idaho and southwest Alberta, Canada, found immigration does not offset harvest mortality, and that pack density declined after the governments began harvest programs.
Their paper appears in Zoological Society of London journal Animal Conservation.
âOur results indicate immigration did not compensate for harvest mortality,â the researchers found. âWe hypothesize the social structure of wolf groups may limit the potentially compensatory response of immigration in some populations.â
Central Idaho study areas saw wolf density decline, lead researcher Sarah Bassing said. Density declined even more in Alberta.