A Yellowstone wolf (Courtesy NPS/Jacob W. Frank) Editor’s note: WyoFile partnered with Mountain Journal to produce this story. If not for a series of tones broadcasting her location, no one would’ve ...

Gray wolves and cougars are not only iconic to the Yellowstone National Park landscape, but they also play important roles in ...

In the heart of Wyoming lies Yellowstone National Park, a sprawling ecosystem that has captivated millions of visitors for centuries. However, its delicate balance faced a near collapse before a ...

When gray wolves returned to Yellowstone National Park, the public heard a simple story: predators came back, balance returned, and the whole ecosystem changed. That narrative held that elk numbers ...

In Yellowstone’s wild chess match between wolves and cougars, it turns out the real power play is theft. After tracking nearly a decade of GPS data and thousands of kill sites, researchers found that ...

Previous research on the effect of wolves on the food web has been criticized, raising questions about the predator’s role in the Yellowstone ecosystem. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...